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HIS     EXCELLENCY     CALEB     STRONG 
Eleven  Times  Elected 
Governor     of     Massachusetts 
United  States  Senator  Seven  Years 

,     LL.D. 

THE  MEADOW  CITY'S 

A   Memorial   of  the  Celebration  of  the 

Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary 

of  the    Settlement  of  the  Town   of 

Northampton  :  Massachusetts 

June  5th,  6th  and  7th,   1904 


A  Mighty  Hand,  from  an  exhaustless  urn, 
Pours  forth  the  never-ending  Flood  of  Years 

Bryant 


Prepared     and    Published    by    Direction    of    the    City    of    Northampton 


HERE  struck  the  seed  —  the   Pilgrims'  roofless  town; 
Where  equal  rights  and  equal  bonds  were  set; 
Where  all  the  people  equal  franchised  met ; 
Where  doom  was  writ  of  privilege  and  crown  ; 
Where  human  breath  blew  all  the  idols  down  ; 
Where  crests  were  naught,  where  vulture  flags  were  furled, 
And  common  men  began  to  own  the  world. 


Give  praise  to  others,  early  come  or  late, 

For  love  and  labor  on  our  Ship  of  State  ; 

But  this  must  stand,  above  all  fame  and  zeal  : 

The  Pilgrim  Fathers  laid  the  ribs  and  keel. 

On  these  strong  lines  we  base  our  social  health  — 

The  Man — the  Home  —  the  Town  —  the  Commonwealth  ! 


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UR  fathers'   God,  from  out  whose  hand 
The  centuries  fall  like  grains  of  sand, 
We  meet  to-day,  united,  tree, 
And  loyal  to  our  land  and  Thee, 
To  thank  Thee  for  the  era  done. 
And  trust  Thee  for  the  opening  one. 


O,  make  Thou  us,  through  centuries  long. 
In  peace  secure,  in  justice  strong ; 
Around  our  gift  of  freedom  draw 
The  safeguards  of  Thy  righteous  law. 
And,  cast  in  some  diviner  mould, 
Let  the  new  cycle  shame  the  old. 


Whittier 


The     "Old     Church,"     i  8  i  2  -  i  8  7  6 
The  Charm  of  the  Town 


INTRODUCTION 


THIS  book  was  not  intended  to  be  a  history  of  North- 
ampton, and  yet  it  contains,  in  the  pages  following  — 
in  the  various  addresses  and  the  w^ork  of  the  historical 
committees  of  the  great  Ouarter-]\Iillennial  Celebration  —  most 
of  the  essential  and  important  facts  which  people  will  care 
to  know  regarding  such  history.  For  further  information,  those 
searching  for  details  are  referred  to  those  superlatively  valuable 
works,  the  manuscripts  of  Sylvester  Judd  and  Trumbull's  His- 
tory of  Northampton. 

Aside  from  the  history  of  a  memorable  Celebration  and  its 
illustrations  of  that  event,  this  book  will  be  found  especially 
valuable  for  its  reproduction  of  portraits  of  old-time  worthies 
and  prominent  living  citizens  of  Northampton.  This  city  has 
no  "Hall  of  Fame"  for  its  great  men  of  the  past,  but  an  impos- 
ing roll  of  honor  has  certainly  been  made  from  the  list  of  local 
notabilities  named  in  these  pages.  It  is  much  to  be  regretted 
that  portraits  could  not  be  obtained  of  such  men  as  General  Seth 
Pomeroy,  w^hose  memory  has  been  so  greatly  honored  by  the 
great  sister  state  of  New  York;  of  Major  Joseph  Hawley,  the 
pure  patriot  and  friend  of  common  school  education;  Hon.  Eli  P. 
Ashmun,  one  of  Northampton's  contributions  to  the  United  States 
Senate;  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard,  Colonel  John  Stoddard  and  Hon. 
Lewis  Strong.  It  would  have  been  most  fitting  if  portraits  of 
these  men  of  honorable  fame  and  large  influence  in  the  making 
of  the  town's  history  could  have  been  given  in  this  volume,  and 
the  present  and  future  generations  will  no  doubt  greatly  regret 
the  inability   to  produce   them. 


XII  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


It  should  not  be  assumed  that  the  portraits  of  all  the  nota- 
ble men  of  the  town  that  were  available  are  given  in  these  pages. 
The  committee  were  both  surprised  and  pleased  to  find  so  many 
that  they  could  use  —  so  many  in  fact  that  a  large  book  might 
be  filled  with  them,  with  brief  references  to  their  many  virtues. 
It  therefore  became  a  disturbing  question,  Whose  portraits  should 
be  given  and  whose  omitted  ?  Doubtless  some  that  have  been 
omitted  are  equally  worthy  of  a  place  in  the  volume  with  some 
whose  portraits  are  given.  But,  for  obvious  reasons,  the  com- 
mittee had  to  be  content  with  a  consensus  of  the  opinion  of 
their  own  members,  on  this  point. 

It  will  probably  be  recognized  how  impracticable  it  would 
be,  in  a  work  of  this  character,  to  give  biographical  sketches  of 
the  subjects  of  portrait.  The  aim  of  the  compilers  of  this  work 
was  simply,  in  this  respect,  to  supplement  the  labors  of  the  his- 
torians of  the  past,  by  adding  to  their  work  such  portraits  as 
might  well  have  accompanied  their  text;  showing  that  such  por- 
traiture, together  with  that  of  the  representative  men  of  today,  is 
a  worthy  and  important  part  of  Northampton's  history  for  the 
past  two  hundred  and  fifty  years. 

For  information  as  to  the  lives  of  the  old  worthies  of  the  past, 
whose  portraits  are  given  in  this  work,  reference  may  be  had  to 
"Northampton  Historicals  and  Antiquities,"  by  Rev.  Solomon 
Clark;  the  historical  and  biographical  works  of  Sylvester  Judd 
and  James  R.  Trumbull,  as  also  to  that  embodied  in  the  "  History 
of  the  Connecticut  Valley,"  published  by  a  Philadelphia  print- 
ing house.  Upon  perusing  these  works,  the  obvious  impossi- 
bility of  reproducing  such  information,  even  in  part,  in  these 
limited  pages,  will  appear  at  once.  As  to  giving  herein  sketches 
of  our  local  living  worthies,  that  will  be  seen  to  have  been 
equally  impracticable,  as  well  as  out  of  taste,  especially  as  local 
contemporaneous  history  has  yet  to  be  written,  and  the  object 
of  this  work  is  simply  to  make  a  general  memorial  tribute  to 
prominent  citizens  who  have  contributed  to  the  building  up  of 
the  results  of  the  last  two  hundred  and  fifty  years. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  xiii 


The  Committee,  in  the  progress  of  their  work,  imbibed  some- 
thing of  the  "spirit  of  the  occasion."  The  Celebration  was  itself 
founded  upon  sentiment — ^love  of  home  and  native  land  and 
reverence  of  an  honored  ancestry— and  this  has  led  the  compilers 
to  make  liberal  quotations  from  some  of  the  great  authors,  of 
sentiments  appropriate  to  the  Celebration  and  this  volume.  In 
this  we  have  followed  no  precedent,  but  have,  rather,  made  a 
precedent  of  our  own.  We  trust  that  these  inspiring  quotations 
will  meet  with  a  fitting  response  from  every  reader. 

The  Committee  are  indebted  to  Miss  Katherine  E.  McClellan, 
Walter  A.  Sheldon,  the  Knowlton  Brothers,  Charles  H.  Howard 
and  Amand  J.  Schillare  of  this  city,  and  many  private  individ- 
uals, for  valuable  photographs,  and  to  Edgar  J.  Lazelle  of 
Springfield  for  a  representation  of  the  bronze  relief  of  St. 
Gaudens'  sculpture  work  on  the  head  of  that  beloved  son  of 
Hampshire,   Dr.   Josiah  Gilbert  Holland. 

It  has  been  the  aim  of  the  Committee  to  produce  a  volume 
that,  in  print  and  binding,  in  size  and  clearness  of  type,  and  in 
every  mechanical  excellence,  as  well  as  in  completeness  of  record 
and  value  of  illustrations,  would  be  a  credit  to  the  city  and  an 
enduring  pleasure  to  its  people. 

With  reference  to  the  mechanical  execution  of  the  work, 
this  fact  seems  worthy  of  mention.  It  is  rarely  the  case  that 
a  book  of  this  character  is  completed  entirely  within  the  walls 
of  one  establishment.  Yet  this  is  the  case  with  this  work. 
All  the  engraving  and  some  of  the  designs  were  drawn,  and 
the  printing  and  binding  were  done,  in  the  publishing  house  of 
The  F.  A.  Bassette  Co.,  in  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  in  the 
absence  of  the  usual  printers'  imprint  on  the  back  of  the  title 
page,  it  seems  that  credit  for  the  superior  results  obtained 
is  justly  due. 

The  origin  and  organization  of  the  Committee  are  referred 
to  in  the  latter  part  of  this  work,  as  a  part  of  the  matter  related 
intimately  to  the  Celebration  itself,  and  this  Introduction  is 
simply  the  usual  means  taken  for  explanation  concerning  certain 


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QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


matters  elsewhere  narrated,  which  might  not  otherwise  be  clearly 
understood.  It  should  also  be  said  that  the  work  of  gathering 
and  preparing  the  material  for  the  volume  has  of  necessity 
proceeded  slowly,  in  order  to  insure  accuracy  and  completeness. 
It  is  the  hope  of  the  Committee  that  this  record  will  prove  to  be 
acceptable  to  the  people  of  the  city,  not  only  of  today,  but  of 
future  years.  As  the  years  roll  by,  gathering  in  increasing  num- 
ber and  forceful  character,  let  it  be  said,  with  none  to  dispute, 
that  the  men  and  women  of  this  and  the  past  generations  in 
Northampton  performed  their  part  in  the  history  of  their  times 
with  such  success  and  honor  as  to  command  the  approval  and 
admiration  of  those  who  shall  come  after  them. 

Respectfully  submitted  by  the  Committee  of  Publication. 

Henry  S.  Gere,  Chairman 
Egbert  I.  Clapp 
Chauncey  H.  Pierce 
Charles  F.  Warner,  Secretary 


DR.   HOLLAND   LIVED    HERE 


Dr.     Josiah     Gilbert     Holland 
Author  of  "  Katlirina,"  "Bitter-Sweet,"  etc. 


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UEEN  village  of  the  meads, 
Fronting  the  sunrise  and  in  beauty  throned, 
With  jeweled  homes  around  her  lifted  brow, 
And  corona]   of  ancient  forest  trees, 
Northampton  sits  and  rules  her  pleasant  realm; 
There,  where  the  saintly  Edwards  heralded 
The  terrors  of  the  Lord,   and  men  bowed  low 
Beneath  the  menace  of  his  awful  words; 
And  there,  where  Nature,  with  a  thousand  tongues, 
Tender  and  true,  from  vale  and  mountain  top, 
And  smiling  streams,  and  landscapes  piled  afar, 
Proclaimed  a  gentler  gospel,   I  was  born. 

From  "Kathrina,"  by  Josiah  Gilbert   Holland. 


THE     FIRST     CELEBRATION     OF 
SETTLEMENT  ///  the  FIRST    CHURCH 

SUNDAY    EVENING  :  €>ftobfr  OlUJrntv.Jlitnt!),  1854 


TWO  hundred  years  had  passed  since  the  settlement  of  the  town 
of  Northampton   before   any  notice  was  taken  of  the  event,  so 
far  as  there  is  any  record.     It  remained  for  the    Rev.  Dr.  Will- 
iam Allen,  a  former  president  of   Bowdoin  college,  and  later  a  citizen 

of  Northampton,  residing  on  King 
street,  to  initiate  and  carry  to  comple- 
tion a  fitting  though  unpretentious 
recognition  of  the  anniversary.  Dr. 
Allen  was  then  in  his  7  2d  year,  a  man 
of  striking  personal  appearance,  with 
long,  flowing  locks  of  gray  hair, 
and  the  bearing  of  a  representative 
of  antic^uity.  He  was  about  the  only 
man  in  the  town  who  took  an  active 
interest  in  celebrating  the  anniver- 
sary, and  to  him,  by  general  consent, 
the  task  was  given  of  preparing  an 
address  suitable  to  the  occasion  and 
carrying  out  the  details  of  the  under- 
taking. Dr.  Allen  had  a  high  respect 
for  the  people  of  our  past  generations 
and  a  full  appreciation  of  the  great 
work  they  had  accomplished,  and 
he  entered  upon  his  task  with  much 

Rev.  William   Allen,  D.D.  enthusiasm. 

On  the  evening  of  Sunday,  Oct.  29, 
1S54,  he  delivered  his  address  to  an  audience  that  nearly  filled  the 
Old  Church,  notwithstanding  the  weather  was  unfavorable.  The  ser- 
vices were  of  a  character  appropriate  to  such  an  occasion,  most  of 
the  local  ministers  participating.  Rev.  John  P.  Hubbard  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church  gave  the  invocation  and  read  from  the  Scriptures ;  a  choir 
of  old  folks  sang  an  original  hymn  prepared  for  the  occasion  by  Dr. 
Allen,  and  also  sang  several  other  hymns  during  the  evening;    Rev.   Dr. 


John     Clarke 
Founder  of  Clarke  Library  and  Clarke  School  for  the  Deaf 


NORTHAMPTON.    MASSACHUSETTS 


John  P.  Cleaveland,  pastor  of  the  Old  Church,  offered  prayer;  Dr.  Allen 
gave  his  address,  which  occupied  two  hours  in  delivery;  Rev.  Gordon 
Hall,  pastor  of  the  Edwards  Church,  offered  prayer,  and  then  followed 
the  reading  of  letters  from  Benjamin  Tappan  of  Steubenville,  Ohio, 
John  and  Charles  Tappan  of  Boston,  and  Lewis  Tappan  of  Brooklyn, 
sons  of  Benjamin  Tappan,  who  from  1768  to  his  decease  in  1831,  was 
a  leading  Northampton  merchant;  and  Charles  Stoddard  of  Boston,  a 
grandson  of  Col.  John  Stoddard  and  great-grandson  of  Rev.  Solomon 
Stoddard,  the  second  minister  of  Northampton. 

These  letters  were  read  by  Rev.  Dr.  George  G.  Ingersoll,  a  tempo- 
rary pastor  of  the  Unitarian  Church.  They  are  very  interesting  and  were 
listened  to  with  great  interest.  Dr.  Allen's  address,  notwithstanding  its 
great  length,  was  listened  to  with  much  satisfaction,  and  was  published 
in  a  pamphlet  with  other  historical  and  genealogical  matter,  the  whole 
filling  fifty-six  pages  of  small  print.  Dr.  Allen  spoke  of  the  early  history 
of  the  town,  its  first  settlement  and  the  Indians,  mentioned  the  first 
ministers  and  some  of  the  distinguished  men  who  have  lived  here  and 
others  who  had  gained  honor  in  different  and  wider  fields,  and  concluded 
with  an  appeal  to  the  men  of  the  present  generation  to  cherish  the  princi- 
ples planted  and  sustained  by  our  fathers. 

The  letters  read  on  this  occasion  were  published  in  the  Hampshire 
Gazette  of  Jan.  23,  1S55,  and  fill  four  columns  of  close  print.  The  writers 
were  at  that  time  old  men,  the  age  of  Benjamin  Tappan  being  eighty- 
four  years.  They  gave  many  interesting  facts  about  the  town,  of  a 
reminiscent  character,  and  have  a  historical  value  that  will  never  fade. 
The  scope  and  limit  of  this  Memorial  Volume  forbid  the  quoting  at 
length  from  these  letters,  but  the  hope  may  be  expressed  that  the  time 
will  come  when  they  will  be  given  to  the  public  in  a  more  convenient 
form. 


Who  has  not  felt  how  sadly  sweet 

The  dream  of  home,  the  dream  of  home, 

Steals  o'er  the  heart,  too  soon  to  fleet, 
When  far  o'er  sea  or  land  we  roam? 

Moore. 


Kindlier  to  me  the  place  of  birth 

That  first  my  tottering  footsteps  trod; 

There  may  be  fairer  spots  on  earth, 

But  all  their  glories  are  not  worth 
The  virtue  of  the  native  sod. 

Lowell. 


Breathes  there  a  man  with  soul  so  dead. 
Who  never  to  himself  hath  said 

This  is  my  own,  my  native  land; 
Whose  heart  hath  ne'er  within  him  burned. 
As  home  his  footsteps  he  hath  turned. 

From  wandering  on  a  foreign  strand  ? 

Scott. 


Home  of  our  childhood  !      How  affection  clings 
And  hovers  around  thee  with  seraph  wings  ! 
Dearer  thy  hills,  though  clad  in  russet  brown, 
Tlian  fairer  summits  which  the  cedars  crown  ! 
Sweeter  the  fragrance  of  thy  summer  breeze 
Than  all  Arabia  breathes  along  the  seas  ! 
The  stranger's  gale  wafts  honie  the  exile's  sigh. 
For  the  heart's  temple  is  its  own  blue  sky. 

Holmes. 


There  is  a  land  of  every  land  the  pride. 
Beloved  bv  Heaven  o'er  all  the  world  beside. 


"Where  shall  that  land,  that  spot  of  earth,  be  found  ?" 
Art  thou  a  man?  —  a  patriot  ? — look  around; 
O,  thou  shalt  find,  where'er  thy  footsteps  roam. 
That  land  thy  country,  and  that  spot  thy  home! 

Montgomery. 


TWO  HUNDRED  &f  FIFTIETH  ANNl 
VERSARY  OF  THE  SETTLEMENT  OF 
NORTHAMPTON:  MASSACHUSETTS 

SUNDAY,  MONDAY  ^  TUESDAY  :  :^uur  5,  6  ant)  7,  1904 

THE    BEGINNING 

IT  was  not  until  the  winter  of  1903  that  any  decided  move  was  made 
toward  celebrating  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
settlement  of  Northampton.  The  venerable  editor  of  the  Hamp- 
shire Gazette,  Henry  S.  Gere,  had  called  attention,  in  his  paper,  to  the 
importance  of  the  approaching  event  and  the  desirability  of  celebrating 
it  in  a  suitable  manner,  but  nothing  was  done  about  it,  officially  or 
otherwise,  by  the  city  government  or  citizens.  Very  few  people  appeared, 
at  first,  to  realize  the  importance  of  the  anniversary,  and,  though  it  was 
generally  conceded  that  some  action  should  be  taken,  no  one  seemed 
willing  to  shoulder  the  responsibility  of  "starting  the  ball  rolling." 
There  was  the  fear  of  being  considered  over-officious,  the  lack  of  time 
which  any  one  man  must  necessarily  give  to  the  leadership  of  such  an 
enterprise,  and,  finally,  the  possibility  of  failure  and  ridicule  therefor. 
In  this  state  of  feeling  probably  the  best  thing  was  done  that  could  be 
done.  A  petition  was  circulated  in  every  part  of  the  city,  with  a  view  to 
obtaining  the  names  of  so  large  a  number  of  representative  professional 
and  business  men  and  general  property  owners,  as  would  bring  respect 
and  dignity  to  an  appeal  to  the  City  Council  for  action. 

This  petition  was  circulated  during  the  winter  of  1903,  and  received 
several  hundred  signatures,  with  hearty  accompanying  words  of  approval 
to  the  bearer  of  the  paper,  in  most  cases. 


The  following  statement,  from  the  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
publication  of  this  book,  explains  itself,  and  is  inserted  by  vote  of  the 
committee : 

Fortunately,  in  this  emergency,  the  man  for  the  time  appeared  in 
Charles  F.  Warner,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  the  town, 
who  started  a  petition  to  the  city  authorities,  asking  them  to  take  action 
tow^ards  a  celebration.      He  prepared  and  circulated  the  petition  him- 


John     P  a  y  s  o  n     W  i  l  i,  i  s  t  o  n 
A  Liberal  Benefactor  of  the  Town 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


self  and  readily  obtained  the  names  of  about  340  citizens,  representing 
the  professional,  business  and  progressive  portions  of  our  people,  and 
from  that  beginning  sprung  the  celebration  which  has  been  the  pride  of 
every  friend  of  Northampton,  both  at  home  and  abroad,  and  which  will 
ever  remain  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  all  the  coming  generations  of 
the  municipality. 


Henry  S.  Gere, 
Chainnau  of  Publication  Committee. 


The  petition  was  laid  before  the  City  Council  April  30,   1903,  and 
will  be  found  following: 


THE     PETITION 


To  the  Honorable,  the  Mayor,  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  and  the  Common 
Council,  of  the  City  of  Xorthampton,  Mass.: 

The  undersigned,  citizens  of  Northampton,  respectfullv  represent, 
that  the  coming  year,  1904,  will  mark  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth,  or 
quarter-millennial,  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Northampton;  and, 
whereas,  it  is  fitting,  patriotic  and  desirable  that  the  people  of  this  city 
should  recognize  the  event  in  some  proper  public  manner;  and,  whereas, 
the  Legislature  of  this  State  has,  by  Chapter  109,  of  the  Acts  of  1902, 
given  towns  and  cities  the  power  to  appropriate  money  for  the  observance 
of  "Old  Home  Week,"  in  the  last  week  of  the  month  of  July: 

Your  petitioners,  the  undersigned,  therefore  ask  your  honorable 
bodies  to  take  steps,  by  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  both  boards, 
with  the  mayor  a  member  ex-ofticio,  and  a  committee  of  three  or  more 
citizens  to  be  named  by  the  Mayor,  to  act  together  in  formulating  a 
plan  for  the  combined  celebration  of  "Old  Home  Week"  and  the  250th 
Anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Northampton,  during  the  last  week  of 
July,  1904,  or  at  such  other  time  as  may  be  deemed  suitable,  said  com- 
mittee to  have  permission  to  call  upon  such  other  citizens  for  sub-com- 
mittees, in  executive  capacitv,  as  may  be  necessary.  And,  to  the  end 
that  such  celebration  shall  be  a  fitting,  comprehensive  and  proper  one, 
your  petitioners    ask   that  such  committee  be  appointed  at  once,  that 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


they  may  have  ample  time  to  make  the  great  anniversary  one  worthy 
of  the  historic  interest  which  is  attached  to  the  city  by  the  country 
at  large,  and  commensurate  with  the  pride  possessed  in  her  by  her 
sons  and  daughters. 


Sidney  E.  Bridgman 
Joseph  Marsh 
Christopher  Clarke 
Charles  H.  Dickinson 
L.  Clark  Seelye 
Chauncey  H.  Pierce 
Oscar  Edwards 
Warren  M.  King 
Edward  P.  Copeland 
George  L.  Wright 
Henry  S.  Gere 
James  H.  Searle 
John  A.  Sullivan 
William  H.  Jones 
Edwin  T.  Hervey 
Albert  M.  Fletcher 
Augustus  B.  Graves 
Thomas  Gilfillan 
William  W.  Lee 
George  Tucker 
Edward  E.  Wood,  Jr. 
William  F.  Pratt 
Joseph  C.  Williams 
John  R.  Hillman 
Henry  G.  Maynard 
Avon  C.  Matthews 
Edwin  C.  Clark 
Winthrop  Delano 
William  H.  Strong 
Frederick  A.  Dayton 
Henry  E.  Maynard 
David  B.  Whitcomb 
Waldo  H.  Whitcomb 
Edward  N.  Foote 
Frank  H.  Warren 
Jacob  H.  Carfrey 
William  C.  Day 
Fred  Simpson 
Nathaniel  W.  Farrar 
George  L.  Marsh 
Matthew  Carroll 
Frederick  E.  Chase 
John  W.  Lyman 
William  E.  Shannon 


Robert  B.  Graves 
Benjamin  E.  Cook 
Francis  A.  Cook 
A.  Lyman  Williston 
Robert  L.  Williston 
Frederick  N.  Kneeland 
Watson  L.  Smith 
Robert  E.  Edwards 
Charles  N.  Clark 
Samuel  B.  Parsons 
Joseph  B.  Parsons 
John  L.  Draper 
John  C.  Hammond 
Frederic  A.  Macomber 
George  H.  Sergeant 
Robert  M.  Branch 
J.  Howe  Demond 
Charles  E.  Till 
Edwin  W.  Higbee 
Edson  p.  Clark 
Levi  Brooks 
Frederick  T.  Atkins 
William  C.  Pomeroy 
Frank  S.  Pomeroy 
Charles  H.  Heald 
Henry  L.  Williams 
Robert  G.  Williams 
Patrick  H.  Gallen 
Luther  C.  Wright 
John  Metcalf 
'Myron  L.  Kidder 
Charles  B.  Kingsley 
Arthur  L.  Thayer 
John  L.  Warner 
Fred  M.  Crittenden 
William  A.  Clark 
Andrew  T.  Miller 
William  H.  Todd 
George  H.  Walker 
William  P.  Strickland 
Louis  L.  Campbell 
A.  Fitch  Bromley 
Charles  S.  Pratt 
Herbert  R.  Graves 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


John  C.  Mangan  ' 

James  H.  Huntington 

George  S.  Gere 

William  J.  Bray 

John  M.  Benson 

Edward  P.  Hall 

J.  DwiGHT  Kellogg 

John  P.  Thompson 

Calvin  Coolidge 

Frederick  W.  Bement 

William  H.  Feiker 

John  T.  Keating 

Theobald  M.  Connor 

Charles  A.  Montgomery 

Peter  McHugh 

Herbert  E.  Riley 

Everett  C.  Stone 

Alfred  G.  Carley 

Ernest  W.  Hardy 

Egbert  I.  Clapp 

Thomas  F.  Burns 

James  Masterson 

Frederick  M.  Starkweather 

Harry  C.  Crafts 

William  H.  Riley 

Carlos  C.  Tracy' 

Oscar  W.  Edwards 

John  L.  Mather 

OsMORE  O.  Roberts 

John  T.  Dewey 

James  O.  Morin 

John  A.  Ross 

David  S.  Ramsay 

Thomas  Munroe  Shepherd 

W^illiam  J.  La  Fleur 

Clarence  E.  Hodgkins 

Clayton  S.  Parsons 

George  F.  Hillman 

Homer  C.  Chapin 

Charles  L.  Crittenden 

Seth  S.  Warner 

David  J.  W^right 

Byron  L.  Towne 

Henry  N.  Ferry 

Sydenham  N.  Ferry 

DwiGHT  B.  Kelton 

William  C.  Phelps 

Hubbard  M.  Abbott 

Robert  W.  Lyman 

William  H.  Clapp 

William  Robinson 


Thomas  S.  Crafts 
Edward  L.  Finn 
George  H.  Smith 
Charles  H.  Bowker 
George  D.  Clark 
William  L.  Chilson 
Edward  C.  Gere 
Andrew  P.  Hancock 
John  B.  Riley 
George  D.  Briscoll 
Leonard  L.  Ball 
Edward  W.  Blanciifield 
Edward  W.  Brown 
James  McKay 
Kirk  H.  Stone 
Calvin  B.  Edwards 
Noah  H.  Lee 
Henry  N.  Brewster 
William  Godfrey 
George  Watson  Clark 
Edwin  H.  Banister 
Roderick  M.  Starkweather 
George  C.  Foster 
Charles  A.  Foster 
James  M.  Pierce 
Charles  M.  Kinney 
William  R.  Holliday 
Henry  Jones 
Robert  McNaughton 
Charles  A.  Pierce 
Charles  W.  Pierce 
Albert  G.  Beckmann 
Richard  B.  Eisold 
George  R.  Turner 
William  K.  Staab 
Ansel  V.  Anderson 
Herman  Nietsche 
Edward  O.  Damon 
Charles  H.  Sawyer 
Chester  W.  French 
Jairus  E.  Clark 
Phelps  &  Gare 
M.  M.  French  &  Co. 
Alfred  G.  Fearing 
Louis  F.  Ruder 
Amand  J.  Schillare 
Frank  E.  Davis 
Ellis  B.  Currier 
Joseph  H.  Riley 
"Herbert  A.  Wiswell 
Albert  E.  Addis 


Samuel     L.     Hill 


Founder  of  Cosmian  Hall,    Florence  Kindergarten  and  Florence 
High  School  House 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


11 


Frank  W.  Woodward 
William  E.  Cooney 
John  B.  O'Donnell 
George  F.  Edwards 
David  C.  Crafts 
loHN  F.  Lambie 
Richard  A.  Cowing 
Homer  O.  Adams 
Louis  Z.  Dragon 
Robert  F.  Armstrong 
Marcus  Cohn 
Charles  W.  Kinney 
Frederick  Kinney 
William  F.  Godfrey 
Roswell  F.  Putnam 
Elmer  P.  Harvey 
G.  Henry  Clark 
Walter  L.  Stevens 
Adolphe  Menard 
William  A.  Bailey 
WiLMOT  L.  Clark 
Edwin  B.  Emerson 
Thomas  F.  McGrath 
Herman  A.  Despault 
John  E.  Bates 
George  F.  Harlow 
Collins  H.  Gere 
Oliver  Walker 
George  L.  Metcalf 
Frank  E.  Clark 
Charles  W.  Whiting 
Eugene  E.  Davis 
Joseph  N.  Davenport 
John  J.  Raleigh 
Franklin  S.  Knowlton 
Wilbur  F.  Knowlton 
John  M.  Turner 
Frederick  C.  Shearn 
Phineas  p.  Nichols 
Sidney  A.  Clark 
Peter  Sobotkv 
Simon  Rosenbaum 
Vernon  E.  Hastings 
Frank  I.  Washburn 
Frank  E.  Shumway 
Louis  B.  Niouette 
Frank  L.  Clapp 
Alvin  W.  Clapp 
S.  DwiGHT  Drltry^ 
Haynes  H.  Chilson 
George  L.  Harris 


Edward  B.  Strong 

Ralph  L.  Baldwin 

Henry  T.  Rose 

Chauncey  E.  Parsons 

Charles  L.  Feiker 

Alfred  H.  Evans 

Richard  W.  Irwin 

Henry  A.  Kimball 

Arthur  F.  Nutting 

John  S.  Hitchcock 

Lucius  S.  Davis 

Northampton  &  Amherst 
Street    Railway    Co.,    by 
Philip  Witherell,  Treas. 

Howard  Clark 

Thomas  B.  Ewing 

John  Prince 

Albert  H.  Carpenter 

George  Wright  Clark 

James  Goodwin 

Charles  N.  Fitts 

Luther  G.  Stearns 

Pierre  C.  Chatel 

Antime  Fontaine 

Charles  E.  Williams 

Joseph  A.  Boudway 

Jonathan  E.  Collins 

Lewis  D.  Parsons 

Jonathan  W.  Arnold 

Harry  E.  Bicknell 

Herbert  C.  Smith 

Edgar  F.  Crooks 

Dexter  W.  French 

George  P.  O'Donnell 

Frank  D.  Barnes 

Luther  A.  Clark 

George  W.  Harlow 

William  D.  Mandell 

William  M.  Cochran 

Joseph  Pickett 

Charles  W.  Phelps 

Silas  E.  Smith 

George  W.  Traphagen 

James  R.  Gilfillan 

John  B.  Cardinal 

John  F.  Mariz 

Matthew  Grogan 

Richard  J.  Rahar 

Patrick  H.  Dewey 

Timothy  G.  Spaulding 

William  G.  Bassett 


Alfred     T  .     I.  i  l  l  v 
Founder  of  Lilly  Library  and  Lilly  Hall  oi  Science 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


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Henry  P.  Field 
Henry  R.  Hinckley 
David  W.  C.  Scates 
Arthur  Watson 
George  W.  Cable 
Henry  M.  Tyler 
Benjamin  C.  Blodgett 
Orrin  E.  Livermore 
John  A.  Houston 
Edwin  B.  Story 
Frank  N.  Look 
Louis  F.  Plimpton 
George  H.  Ray 
Samuel  W.  Lee 
Omer  M.  Smith 
Homer  C.  Bliss 
William  MacKenzie 
Arthur  G.  Hill 
John  W.  Bird 
Charles  E.  Gould 
William  Gates 
Charles  R.  Farr 
Vernet  E.  Cleveland 


Charles  E.  Herrick 
George  L.  Beals 
Thomas  A.  Orcutt 
John  C.  Breaker 
Clayton  E.  Davis 
Philip  A.  Otis 
George  S.  Graves 
Charles  (J.  Parsons 
Edwin  B.  Brewer 
Edward  A.  Haven 
Julius  P.  Maine 
Walter  W.  Ross 
Stephen  B.  Fuller 
Arthur  M.  Ware 
Michael  Cooney 
William  A.  Stevenson 
William  H.  Stevens 
James  S.  Conroy 
Clifford  H.  Lyman 
Edward  E.  Wood 
George  S.  Whitbeck 
Alvin  M.  Locke 
Charles  Forbes  Warner 


ACTION    TAKEN    ON  PETITION   by  the 
COUNCIL    AND   IN  MASS    MEETING 

THE  reference  made  to  "  Old  Home  Week,"  in  the  foregoing  peti- 
tion, was  prudential.  Northampton  had  not,  tip  to  that  time, 
taken  any  steps  toward  the  observance  of  "Old  Home  Week," 
and  this  holiday  season  had  then  been  established  but  a  few  years  in  the 
state;  but  it  was  deemed  best  to  use  the  general  term  in  the  petition, 
for  the  purpose  of  both  offering  a  warrant  for  an  appropriation  and 
gratifying  those  who  might  be  pleased  to  consider  a  quarter-millennial 
celebration  in  the  light  of  a  home-coming  and  a  concession  to  the  "Old 
Home  Week"  sentiment. 

The  petition,  as  presented  to  the  City  Council,  met  with  the  hearty 
approval  of  that  body,  and,  under  suspension  of  the  rules,  an  order  was 
passed  authorizing  the  Mayor  to  appoint  the  committee-at-large  asked 
for  in  the  petition,  and  providing  that  said  committee  report  to  the 
Council  what  action  might  be  necessary  in  the  premises.  This  was  on 
April  30,  1903,  and  at  a  session  of  the  City  Council,  held  May  14,  Mayor 
Hallett  announced  the  appointment  of  most  of  the  following  committee, 
several  names  being  added  by  him  within  a  few  days  thereafter,  to 
constitute  the  complete  list,  as  follows: 

FRELIMlNAin^    COMMITTEE    OF    ARRANGEMENTS 


L.  Clark  Seelye 
Samuel  W.  Lee 
Chauncey  H.  Pierce 
Henry  S.  Gere 
Frederick  A.  Dayton 
Edward  N.  Foote 
Matthew  Carroll 
William  H.  Feiker 
Herbert  E.  Riley 
William  H.  Riley 
John  L.  Mather 
John  T.  Dewey 
Seth  S.  Warner 
John  B.  O'Donnell 
John  F.  Lambie 
William  A.  Bailey 


Robert  G.  Williams 

Pres.  Board  of  Trade 
Philip  Gleason 
Edwin  H.  Banister 
William  A.  Clark 
William  G.  Bassett 
William  G.  Sterling 
Hubbard  M.  Abbott 
Samuel  B.  Parsons 
Charles  B.  Kingsley 
Oscar  Edwards 
Samuel  Porter 
Charles  A.  Maynard 
Charles  E.  Herrick 
Edwin  B.  Emerson 
Alexander  McCallum 


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15 


Louis  B.  Niquette 
Haynes  H.  Chilson 
Hexry  p.  Field 
David  W.  C.  Scates 
George  H.  Ray 
Benjamin  E.  Cook 
A.  Lyman  Williston 
John  C.  Hammond 
Patrick  H.  Gallen 
John  S.  Hitchcock 
Edgar  F.  Crooks 
Frank  N.  Look 
Theobald  M.  Connor 


Arthur  G.  Hill 
Henry  A.  Kimball 
Merritt  Clark 
Charles  L.  Fkiker 
Lucius  Dimock 
Oscar  F.  Ely 
William  Gates 
William  MacKenzie 
Charles  H.  Heald 
Louis  L.  Campbell 
John  E.  Bates 
Timothy  G.  Spaulding 
Arthur  M.  Ware 


William  A.  Stevenson 


SOCIETIES 

John  P.  Thompson,  Com.  W.  L.  Baker  Post,  No.  86,  G.  A.  R. 
Katherine  S.  Barrett,  Pres.  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  No.  i8. 
Harry  E.  BiCKNELL.Capt.  George  S.  Bliss  Camp,  Sons  of  Veterans,  No.  48. 
Martin  S.  Hardiman,  Pres.  Div.  No.  i,  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians. 
James  Davenport,  M.  W.  Hampshire  Lodge,  No.  98,  A.  0.  U.  W. 
Charles  Pellissier,  M.  W.  College  City  Lodge,  No.  219,  A.  O.  U.  W. 

Florence. 
Dennis   Dowd,   Pres.   St.   Mary's   Branch,   Cath.    Knights  of  America, 

Florence. 

Miss  Clara  P.  Bodman,  Regent  Betty  Allen  Chapter,  Dau.  Amer.  Rev. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Martin,  Pres.   Daughters  of  St.  George. 

Richard  B.  Eisold,  Pres.  German-American  Citizens'  Association. 

William  A.  Bailey,   Pres.   Hampshire,   Franklin  and   Hampden  Agr'l 
Society. 

George  W.  Cable,  Pres.  Home  Culture  Clubs. 

Paul  Fitzgerald,  Sachem  Capawonke  Tribe,  Ind.  Order  of  Red  Men. 

Morti.mer  G.  Sullivan,  G.  K.  Knights  of  Columbus. 

Thomas  F.  McGrath,  V.  C.  Amity  Lodge,  Knights  of  Fidelity  and  B.  L.  U 

George  E.  Douglass,  Sir  K.  Commander  Knights  of  Malta. 

Adolphe  Menard,  Pres.  L'Union  St.  Joseph. 

Jairus  E.  Clark,  Pres.  Northampton  Club. 

William  H.  Carson,  Pres.  Northampton  Cricket  Club. 

Arthur  G.  Doane,  Pres.  Northampton  Cycle  Ckib. 

Edward  P.  Copeland,  Pres.  Horticultural  Society. 

Charles  H.  Sawyer,  Pres.  Northampton  Rod  and  Gun  Club. 


Judge     Charles     E.     Forbes,     LL.D 
Founder  of  Forbes  Library 

FROM    TABLET    IN    FORBES    LIBRARY' 


IT  HAS  BEEN  MY  AIM  TO  PLACE  WITHIN  REACH  OF  THE  INHABITANTS  OF  A 
TOWN  IN  WHICH  I  HAVE  LIVED  LONG  AND  PLEASANTLY  THE  MEANS  OF  LEARN- 
ING, IF  THEY  ARE  DISPOSED  TO  LEARN,  THE  MARVELOUS  DEVELOPMENTS  OF 
MODERN  THOUGHT  AND  TO  ENABLE  THEM  TO  JUDGE  OF  THE  DESTINY'  OF  THE 
HUMAN  RACE  ON  SCIENTIFIC  EVIDENCE  RATHER  THAN  ON  METAPHYSICAL 
EVIDENCE      ALONE.        THE     IMPORTANCE     OF     THE      EDUCATION     OF     THE    PEOPLE 

CANNOT  BE  OVERRATED. — From  the  Will  of  J luhie  Foi-hes. 


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i 

Heinrich  Drechsel,  Pres.  Northampton  Schuetzenverein. 

Henry  L.  Williams,  Pres.  Northampton  Vocal  Club. 

William  Phillips,  Master  Northampton  Grange,  No.  138,  P.  of  H. 

Arthur  B.  Van  Slike,  Regent,  Florence  Council,  No.  1390,  Royal  Ar- 
canum. 

Joseph  H.  Carnall,  Pres.  Primrose  Lodge,  No.  166,  Sons  of  St.  George. 

Narcisse  Paquin,  Pres.  St.  John  Baptist  Society,  No.  166. 

Mrs.  David  J.  Condon,  N.  C.  Florence  Commandery,  No.  31,  U.  O.  G.  vS. 

Henry  C.  Warnock,  Capt.  Wish-ton-Wish  Canoe  Club. 

A.  Fitch  Bromley,  General  Sec'y  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 

Frederick  C.  Ely,  W.  M.  Jerusalem  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

Charles  H.  Chase,  E.  C.  Northampton  Commandery  Knights  Templar. 

Augustus  B.  Graves,  N.  G.  Nonotuck  Lodge,  No.  61,  L  O.  O.  F. 

Willie  H.  Bruce,  Com't  Canton  Meadow  City,  No.  29,  L  O.  O.  F. 

Mrs.  Hattie  A.  Walker,  N.  G.  Mary  Lyon  Rebekah  Lodge,  No.  62. 

George  Connelly,  C.  R.  Court  Meadow  City,  No.  72,  F.  of  A. 

David  J.  Moran,  C.  R.  Duvernay  Court,  No.  93,  F.  of  A. 

William  J.  Meehan,  D.  Florence  Lodge,  No.  1207,  Knights  of  Honor. 

G.  Henry  Clark,  C.  C.  Norwood  Lodge,  No.  98,  Knights  of  Pythias. 

John  F.  Ahearn,  Pres.  F.  M.  T.  A.  &  B.  Society. 

James  Meehan,  Pres.  F.  M.  T.  A.  &  B.  Society,  Florence. 

James  M.  Maloney,  Pres.  St.  Mary's  Temperance  Society. 

Mrs.  Myron  L.  Kidder,  Honorary  and  Acting  President  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Mrs.  Henry  W.  Messier,  Juliette  Circle,  No.  390  Companions  of  the 
Forest. 

Miss  IvAH  C.  Keeler,  C.  C.  Pride  of  Meadow  City  Circle,  No.  397, 
C.  of  F. 

Miss  Margaret  O'Brien,  C.  H.  Enterprise  Lodge,  Degree  of  Honor. 

David  Morin,  Com.  Knights  of  Sherwood  Forest. 

EvoN  F.  HuEBLER,  Prcs.  Steuben  Lodge,  German  Order  of  Harugari. 

William  Hayes,  D.  Elm  City  Lodge,  Knights  of  Honor. 

Chester  W.  French,  Capt.  Company  L  M.  V.  M. 

TRADE    UNIONS 

William  H.  Finn,  Pres.  Barbers'  Union. 

John  T.  O'Connor,  Pres.  Carpenters'  Union. 

Michael  V.  Kelly,  Pres.  Central  Labor  Union. 

Patrick  W.  Sullivan,  Pres.  Cigar  Makers'  Union,  No.  396. 

Edward  Martin,  Pres.  Grinders'  Union,  No  6. 


Dr.     P  I.  1  n  y     E  a  r  l  e 


Superintendent  State  Lunatic   Hospital,   iSb^-iSS,.     Oave  nearly  his  entire 
estate  for  maintenance  ol   Forlies  Library 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  19 

Alfred  Frost,  Pres.  Knife  Forgers'  Union,  No.  165,  I.  B.  of  B. 

George  W.  Busch,  Pres.  Machinists'  Union,  No.  448. 

John  Senser,  Pres.  Metal  Polishers'  Union,  No.  139. 

Daniel  J.  McCarthy,  Pres.  Metal  Polishers'  Union,  No.  155. 

Oscar  R.  Hier,  Pres.  Tailors'  Union,  No.  168. 

Richard  E.  Davies,  Pres.  Plumbers'  S.  &  G.  F.  Union,  No.  64. 

Robert  T.  Newton,  Pres.  Retail  Clerks'  Union. 

Henry  Charlebois,  Pres.  Textile  Workers'  Union,  No.  188. 

Timothy  J.  Lynch,  Pres.  Brotherhood  of  Railway  Trainmen. 

Frank  A.  Morin,  Vice-Pres.  of  Musicians'  Union. 


INDIVIDUALS 

Charles  F.  Warner  Alfred  T.  Bliss 

Frank  E.  Davis  Richard  W.  Irwin 

George  D.  Clark  Edwin  C.  Clark 

Christopher  Clarke  Thomas  M.  Shepherd 

Watson  L.  Smith  Emerson  J.  Smith 

John  A.  Houston,  M.D.  Prof.  Harry  N.  Gardiner 

William  W.  Lee  John  J.  Raleigh 

James  H.  Huntington  Jacob  H.  Carfrey 

Christopher  Seymour,  M.D.  Rev.  John  Kenny 

Rev.  Henry  T.  Rose  Rev.  John  C.  Breaker 

Rev.  Clement  E.  Holmes  Rev.  Noel  Rainville 

Rev.  Alfred  Free  Rev.  Herbert  G.  Buckingham 

Rev.  Robert  F.  Jones  Rev.  S.  Allen  Barrett 


John  L.  Warner,  Collector  of  Taxes. 

Fred  M.  Starkweather,  Chairman  Assessors  of  Taxes. 

Henry  E.  Maynard,  Chief  of  Police. 

George  R.  Turner,  Inspector  of  Plumbing. 

George  F.  Birge,  Superintendent  of  Streets. 

George  W.  Clark,  City  Treasurer. 


Henry  C.  Hallett 


Sylvester     Judd 

Antiquarian,    Historian,  Compiler  of  Jiidd  Manuscripts, 
Author  Judd's  History  of  Hadley 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  21 

BOARD   OF  ALDERMEN 

James  W.  Heffernan  Lewis  F.  Babbitt 

Moses  Bassett  William  Grant 

Edward  J.  Jarvis  Michael  J.  McCarthy 

Dennis  J.  Meehan 


Egbert  L  Clapp,  City  Clerk 


COMMON    COUNCIL 

William  H.  Carson  Arthur  G.  Doane 

John  J.  Kennedy  George  H.  Drury 

Timothy  McCarthy  George  Bliss  McCallum 

Charles  H.  Chase  Charles  H.  Eustis 

Sidney  A.  Clark  Roderick  M.  Starkweather 

Henry  Tessier  Walter  L.  Stevens 

John  Burke  William  F.  Cooney 

Stephen  M.  Keough  William  J.  Foran 

Michael  W.  Meehan  William  E.  Welsh 

Charles  S.  Beals 
Andrew  Faas 
George  W.  Hillier 

William  E.  Shannon,  Clerk 

THE     FIRST     MEETING     IN     CITT     HALL 

The  appointment  of  the  foregoing  committee-at-large  was  followed 
by  the  call,  from  City  Clerk  Egbert  L  Clapp,  by  direction  of  the  Mayor, 
to  meet  in  the  City  Hall  Wednesday  evening,  May  27,  1903,  to  take 
action  in  the  premises.  This  meeting  was  held  at  the  time  appointed, 
about  sixty  members  of  the  committee  being  present.  The  Mayor  pre- 
sided and  Charles  F.  Warner  was  chosen  secretary.  Considerable  enthu- 
siasm was  shown  in  a  quiet  way,  and  upon  motion  of  George  W.  Cable, 
it  was  declared  to  be  the  sense  of  the  meeting  that  a  celebration  should 
be  had.     Timothy  G.  Spaulding  moved  that  a  committee  of  fifteen  be 


J  A  M  K  s     R  .     Trumbull 

Editor  Hampshire^Gazette  twenty-three  years.     Author  Trumbull's 
History  of  Northampton 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  23 

i 

appointed  by  the  Mayor  to  formulate  plans  for  a  celebration,  and 
report  at  a  future  meeting.  This  motion  was  carried  without  debate, 
and  upon  motion  of  Alfred  T.  Bliss  of  Florence  it  was  voted  that  the 
committee  when  constituted  should  include  in  its  membership  the  fol- 
lowing named:  Henry  S.  Gere,  John  B.  O'Donnell,  Edwin  H.  Banister, 
Timothy  G.  Spaulding  and  Egbert  I.  Clapp.  The  meeting  then  adjourned 
subject  to  the  call  of  the  committee  of  fifteen.  This  committee,  as 
afterwards  completed  by  the  Mayor  and  notified  by  the  secretary,  to 
meet,  was  constituted  as  follows: 

Timothy  G.  Spaulding  George  H.  Ray 

Henry  S.  Gere  Victor  Rocheleau 

John  B.  O'Donnell  L.  Clark  Seelye' 

Egbert  I.  Clapp  Samuel  W.  Lee 

Edwin  H.  Banister  Edgar  F.  Crooks 

Edward  P.  Copeland  Richard  W.  Irwin 

Thomas  M.  Shepherd  Benjamin  E.  Cook 

Philip  Gleason 

ORGANIZATION  OF  A  PROVISIONAL 
COMMITTEE     AND      M  A  T  0  R'  S     ADDRESS 

Shortly  following  their  appointment,  the  before-named  provisional 
committee  of  fifteen  met  at  the  Common  Council  room,  and  appointed 
a  sub-committee  of  three,  consisting  of  Timothy  G.  Spaulding,  Richard 
W.  Irwin  and  Egbert  I.  Clapp,  to  report  a  scheme  of  permanent  organi- 
zation and  a  program  for  the  celebration.  This  sub-committee  spent  the 
summer  and  fall  months  in  investigating  the  matter  of  similar  celebra-  I 

tions  elsewhere,  and  were  not  able  to  report  to  the  main  committee 
until  in  January  of  the  following  year.  In  the  meantime,  Mayor  Henry 
C.  Hallett  had  been  elected  for  a  third  term  of  office,  and  to  him  belongs 
the  honor  of  making  the  first  written  and  official  suggestion  that  the 
year  1904  was  the  Quarter-Millennial  year  of  the  municipality,  and  that 
the  250th  anniversary  should  be  celebrated  in  an  ample  and  generous 
manner.    It  is  certain  that  if  no  one  else  appreciated — six  months  before  : 

the  event  —  the  magnitude  and  expense  of  a  fitting  celebration  and  the  '. 

importance  of  it,  Mayor  Hallett  did,  for  in  his  third  inaugural  message 
to  the  City  Council,  delivered  Jan.  4,  1904,  he  made  the  following  refer-  | 

ence  to  the  matter:  i 


24  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

"  JFew  New  England  towns  have  a  longer,  and  none  a  prouder, 
history  than  ours.  The  soil  of  Northampton,  it  is  true,  has  been  the 
scene  of  few  of  the  events  that  are  noted  in  history,  and  not  over-many 
of  her  sons  have  achieved  national  fame.  These  facts,  however,  are  but 
accidents  of  circumstance.  For  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  Northampton 
has  been  a  community  of  sturdv,  industrious,  God-fearing,  sane  and 
patriotic  men  and  women;  a  splendid  example  of  the  rural  New  England 
communities,  whose  people  have  preserved  and  developed  the  Common- 
wealth and  the  Nation,  and  whose  children  have  peopled  the  West. 

"The  recent  publication  of  James  R.  Trumbull's  History  of  North- 
ampton has  done  much  to  awaken  interest  in  local  history.  We  have 
much  to  be  grateful  for  that  a  man  of  so  abundant  industry  and  scholarly 
enthusiasm  was  moved  to  undertake  this  history  and  enabled  to  carrv 
it  so  far  toward  completion;  yet,  in  spite  of  this  easily  accessible  source 
of  information,  it  is  to  be  feared  that  too  many  of  our  people,  especially 
those  of  the  younger  generation,  are  lacking  in  knowledge  of,  and  interest 
in,  our  local  history.  This  is  no  more  true  of  Northampton  than  of  other 
communities,  and  is  due  doubtless  to  the  fact  that  attention  has  been 
so  little  directed  to  the  matter.  The  history  of  the  nation  is  taught,  as 
it  should  be,  in  our  schools,  but  little  is  known  by  our  children  of  the 
particular  history  of  Massachusetts  and  Northampton.  I  doubt  if  the 
names  of  John  Stoddard,  Seth  Pomeroy,  Joseph  Hawlev  and  Caleb 
Strong  have  any  particular  significance  or  any  familiar  sound  in  our 
schools,  or  even  among  many  of  our  people.  I  trust  that  the  coming 
anniversary  may  be  made  the  occasion  of  the  inauguration  in  our 
schools  of  a  course  in  the  history  of  our  state  and  city.  Such  a  course 
need  not  perhaps  go  further  than  a  series  of  familiar  talks  by  the  teachers, 
but  it  should  be  sufficient  to  awaken  and  sustain  an  enthusiastic  interest 
in  our  local  history.  The  cultivation  of  local  patriotism  is  not  a  thing 
which  we  can  afford  to  neglect.  If  the  coming  celebration  can  be  so 
arranged  as  to  instill  in  us  all  a  lasting  appreciation  of  what  the  men 
and  women  of  Northampton  have  achieved,  this  will  not  be  the  least 
of  its  benefits. 

"Several  of  our  neighboring  towns  have,  during  the  past  year, 
celebrated  various  anniversaries  of  their  foundation  in  fitting  style. 
Such  celebrations  are  always  expensive,  but  it  is  to  be  remembered  that 
this  particular  one  will  not  be  repeated  until  two  hundred  and  fifty 
years  more  have  passed.  If  our  own  celebration  is  to  take  the  rank  to 
which  the  age  of  the  community  and  the  achievements  of  its  people 
entitle  it,  there  will  be  need  of  the  expenditure  of  much  time  and  much 
money.  It  is  particularly  our  province  to  see  that  the  latter  is  not 
lacking,  and  I  therefore  recommend  to  you  that  the  committee  in  charge 
be  forthwith  provided  with  a   very  generous  appropriation." 


REPORT     TO     QENERAL     COMMITTEE 

ON  January  20,  1904,  the  sub-committee  were  able  to  report  to 
the  provisional  committee  of  fifteen  virtually  complete  plans  for 
the  celebration.  These  ])lans  were  accepted  by  that  com- 
mittee, and  a  meeting  of  the  general  committee  was  called  for  and  held 
in  the  upper  City  Hall,  Januarv  23. 

At  this  meeting  the  Mayor  designated  the  following  additions  to 
the  general  committee:  Oliver  Dragon;  Ward  i,  Homer  O.  Adams, 
Edgar  J.  Hebert;  Ward  2,  Abbot  L.  Gloyd;  Ward  3,  vS.  Wilham  Clark, 
Arthur  C.  Herrick,  James  H.  O'Dea;  Ward  4,  Clarence  E.  Hodgkins, 
Alfred  J.  Preece;  Ward  5,  John  F.  Mahar;  Ward  6,  Frederick  A.  Esta- 
brook,  Alexander  W.  Ewing;  Ward  7,  Harry  A.  Stowell. 

The  matter  of  preparing  and  publishing  a  Memorial  Volume,  de- 
scribing in  detail  the  Celebration,  with  illustrations  of  the  decorations, 
parade,  and  such  other  appropriate  features  of  it  as  could  be  obtained, 
was  discussed,  on  a  motion  offered  by  Henry  S.  Gere,  that  such  a  vol- 
ume be  authorized  at  once  and  preparations  for  it  begun  immediately; 
but  no  action  was  taken  in  relation  to  it,  further  than  to  vote  that  City 
Clerk  Clapp  be  authorized  to  keep  a  record  of  the  doings  of  the  prelimi- 
nary committees  and  collect  all  matters  of  interest  in  relation  to  the 
Celebration,  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  to  determine  as  to 
the  advisability  of  publishing  such  a  work. 

The  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  were  authorized  to  applv 
to  the  Cit}'  Council  for  an  appropriation  of  $10,000,  to  carry  out  the 
Celebration,  the  plans  for  which  were  at  that  time  announced  briefly 
as  follows : 

For  Sunday,  June  5,  suitable  exercises  in  the  city  churches  in  the 
morning,  and  in  the  evening  a  concert  for  all  the  people,  with  appropriate 
vocal  and  instrumental  selections. 

Monday,  indoor  exercises  at  10  a.  m.,  including  an  address  of  wel- 
come and  an  oration;  at  2  p.  m.,  children's  exercises,  and  in  the  evening 
a  concert  by  the  Northampton  Vocal  Club,  to  be  followed  by  a  reception 
to  the  Governor  of  the  state. 

Tuesday,  June  7,  a  civic  and  military  parade  at  ten  o'clock,  to  be 
followed  at  one  o'clock  by  a  banquet  and  after-dinner  speaking,  with 
fireworks  in  the  evening. 

To  carry  ovit  this  program  the  Provisional  Committee  recommended 
that  a  temporary  structure  be  erected,  in  which  all  indoor  functions 


Edward     H.     R.     Lyman 
Founder  of  Academy  of  Music 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  27 

I  — 

should  be  held,  and  the  question  of  where  this  structure  should  be  located 
was  announced  as  happily  solved  in  the  offer  of  the  Forbes  Library  lot, 
by  the  trustees  of  the  library. 

A  recommendation  was  also  made,  that  the  towns  of  Easthampton, 
Southampton  and  Westhampton  be  invited  to  join  in  the  celebration, 
in  such  manner  as  should  seem  to  them  most  fitting. 

In  its  report  the  Provisional  Committee  of  fifteen  described  the 
duties  of  the  several  sub-committees,  and  enacted  the  following  scheme 
of  government  for  the   Executive  and  Finance  and  other  Committees: 

RULES    FOR    COMMITTEES 

The  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  shall  have  the  sole  and 
entire  charge,  custody  and  control  of  all  moneys  appropriated  by  the 
city  for  the  celebration. 

It  shall  determine  the  sums  to  be  allotted  out  of  the  funds  in  its 
hands  for  the  needs  of  the  several  committees.  It  shall  organize  at  once 
with  the  Mayor  as  chairman  and  a  clerk  and  treasurer. 

Five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  any 
business  which  may  come  before  it. 

We  recommend  that  the  City  Council  appropriate  forthwith  a  sum 
not  less  than  $10,000,  and  that  the  same  be  turned  over  to  said  Execu- 
tive and  Finance  Committee  at  an  early  date,  in  order  that  the  work  to 
be  done  may  be  entered  upon  at  once. 

Xo  bill  or  account  for  expenditure,  approved  by  a  chairman  of  anv 
committee,  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  the  Executive  and  Finance 
Committee  until  approved  by  the  chairman  of  the  last-named  committee 
in  writing. 

This  committee  shall  have  general  authority  and  supervision  as  to 
all  matters  pertaining  to  the  preparation  for  and  the  carrving  out  of 
the  celebration,  and  shall  have  authority  to  change  and  modifv  plans  and 
details  in  the  work  of  all  other  committees  in  any  manner  it  may  deem 
expedient. 

This  committee  shall  also  be  and  constitute  the  board  for  deciding 
and  determining  all  matters,  questions  and  differences  of  opinion  which 
may  arise  in  the  several  committees  in  the  performance  of  their  respective 
duties,  and  shall  have  power  to  fill  all  vacancies  occurring  in  the  member- 
ship of  committees  and  to  appoint  a  chairman  thereof,  whenever  that 
position  becomes  vacant,  or  is  not  satisfactorily  filled. 

The  chairmen  of  all  committees,  where  a  chairman  has  been  desig- 
nated, except  the  chairman  of  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee, 
shall  have  the  direction  and  control  of  the  work  of  their  respective  com- 
mittees, and  meetings  of  said  committees  shall  be  called  only  by  their 
chairmen,  and  at  such  times  as  said  chairmen  shall  deem  expedient. 


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QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


The  chairmen  of  all  other  committees,  except  the  Executive  and 
Finance  Committee,  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  making  any  contract 
or  of  incurring  or  authorizing  the  expenditure  of  any  money  by  their 
respective  committees;  but  such  a  chairman  shall  have  no  power  to 
expend  or  authorize  the  expenditure  of  money  over  and  beyond  the  sum 
previously  allotted  to  his  committee  by  the  Executive  and  Finance 
Committee.  All  accounts  and  bills  shall  be  vouched  for  and  approved 
by  the  chairman  of  the  committee  who  has  incurred  them  and  shall 
be  then  turned  over  to  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee,  and 
upon  approval  by  its  chairman  shall  be  paid  by  its  treasurer,  who  shall 
keep  an  accurate  and  full  account  of  all  payments  made  by  him. 


THE    COMPLETE   WORKING    ORGAN 
IZATION     FOR    THE    CELEBRATION 

The  various  sub-committees,  as  suggested  by  the  Provisional  Com- 
mittee, and  finally  constituted  and  officered,  were  as  follows: 

ON    EXECUTIVE    AND    FINANCE 

Mayor  Henry  C.  Hallett,  Cliairman 

*TiMOTHY  G.  Spaulding  Edgar  F.  Crooks 

Chauxcey  H.  Pierce  Frank  N.  Look 

Theobald  M.  Connor  Adolphe  Menard 

Charles  B.  Kingsley  Edwin  H.  Banister 

Edward  E.  Wood  Samuel  W.  Lee 

George  W.  Clark,  Egbert  L  Clapp,  Sec. 
Trcas.,  cx-officio 

ON    INVITATIONS 

Louis  L.  Campbell,  Chairman 

Sidney  E.  Bridgman  Christopher  Clarke 

David  B.  Whitcomb  Edward  B.  Strong 

Collins  H.  Gere  John  Metcalf 

George  D.  Clark  Robert  L.  Williston 

Clayton  S.  Parsons  L.  Warren  Morgan 

Frederic  A.  Macomber  George  H.  Sergeant 

Jonathan  W.  Arnold  Frederick  W.  Bement 

Edwin  K.  Abbott  Oliver  B.  Bradley 

Allen  C.  Warner  Charles  F.  Warner,  Sec. 

RECEPTION    AND    ENTERTAINMENT 

Ernest  W.  Hardy,  Chairman 

John  T.  Stoddard  Frank  Lyman 

Frederick  N.  Kneeland  Josiah  W.  Parsons 

Edward  E.  Graves  Matthew  Grogan 

Ellis  B.  Currier  William  Godfrey 

Joseph  H.  Shearn  Charles  O.  Parsons 

William  H.  Feiker  Homer  O.  Adams 

Mrs.  Henry  C.  Hallett  Mrs.  Lucy  Hunt  Smith 

Mrs.  Louise  S.  Hildreth  Mrs.  Lucius  S.  Davis 

Miss  Jennie  C.  Pratt  Miss  Sarah  M.  Butler 

Mrs.  Samuel  B.  Parsons  Mrs.  Edwin  H.  Banister 

Mrs.  John  B.  O'Donnell  Mrs.  Richard  W.  Irwin 


*Resigned  by  reason  of  disability. 


George     Bliss,     Pliiladelphia 
He  gave  Generously  for  the  Benefit  of  liis  Native  Town 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  31 


Miss  Minnie  A.  Kiely  Miss  Clara  P.    Bodman 

Miss  Mary  Fitzpatrick  Miss  Marie  Louise  Menard 

Mrs.  Henry  L.  Williams  Miss  Sidonia  A.  Ruder 

Mrs.  Robert  H.  Clapp  Mrs.  George  H.  Page 

Mrs.  Sidney  E.  Bridgman  Mrs.  Louis  F.  Plimpton 

Mrs.  Patrick  H.  Halloran  Mrs.  Frank  N.  Look 

Miss  Eugenie  Lamontagne  Mrs.  Albert  L.  Phelps 

Mrs.  William  W.  Lee  Miss  Anna  Menard 

Mrs.  John  J.  Raleigh  Miss  Carrie  L.  Walker 

Mrs.  William  H.  Riley  Mrs.  Joseph  O.  Daniels 
Miss  Jennie  C.  Pratt,  Secretary 

COMMITTEE  ON  SUNDAY  OBSERVANCES 

IN  CHURCHES 

Rev.  Henry  T.  Rose,  Cl!air)jiaii,  First  Church  of  Christ. 

Rev.  Lyman  P.  Powell,  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

Rev.  John  C.  Breaker,  Baptist  Church. 

Rev.  Frederic  H.  Kent,  Second  Congregational  Church. 

Rev.  Willis  H.  Butler,  Edwards  Church. 

Rev.  Clement  E.  Holmes,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Rev.  John  Kenny,  St.  Mary's  Church. 

Rev.  S.  Allen  Barrett,  Florence  Congregational  Church. 

Rev.  Alfred  Free,  Free  Congregational  Church. 

Rev.  Herbert  G.  Buckingham,  Florence  Methodist  Episcopal 

Church. 
Rev.  Patrick  H.  Gallen,  Church  of  the  Annunciation. 
Rev.  Noel  Rainville,  Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart. 
Rev.  Thomas  P.  Lucey,  Church  of  the  Blessed  Sacrament. 
Rev.  Frederic  H.  Kent,  Secretary. 

ON  MONDAY  MORNING  EXERCISES  AND  ORATION 

Key.  L.  Clark  Seelye,  Chainnaii 

William  P.  Strickland  George  W.  Cable 

John  B.  O'Donnell  Henry  P.  Field,  Secretary 

ON  CHILDREN'S  PARADE 

Jacob  H.  Carfrey,  Chairman 
Robert  G.  Williams  Fred  Stork 

Clarence  P.  Roote  Miss  Amy  B.  Blish 

Rev.  John  Kenny  Alfred  H.  Evans 

J.  Henry  Clagg  Rev.  Noel  Rainville 

John  M.  Rowell  Miss  Harriet  H.  Pratt 

Miss  Elizabeth  L.  Kingsley 


32  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


William  H.  Riley  Miss  Catherine  A.  Clark 

Andrew  P.  Hancock  George  L.  Harris 

Arthur  G.  Hill 
Edwin  C.  Howard,  Secretary 

ON  GAMES  AND  SPORTS 

John  T.  Keating,  Chairman 

Homer  C.  Bliss  James  H.  O'Dea 

Harry  C.  Crafts  William  MacKenzie 

Lucius  S.  Davis  Matthew  Carroll 

Peter  Sobotky,  Secretary 

ON  GOVERNOR'S   RECEPTION 

Mayor  Henry  C.  Hallett,  C'Jiainnaii 
Richard  W.  Irwin  Henry  M.  Tyler 

Thomas  F.  Ahearn  George  Wright  Clark 

Charles  N.  Clark  Alexander  L.  Dragon 

Charles  A.  Clark,  Secretary 

ON  PARADE 

Richard  W.  Irwin,  Chairman 

John  J.  Raleigh  Frank  E.  Davis 

Eugene  E.  Davis  Robert  H.  Clapp 

William  A.  Clark  S.  William  Clark 

Robert  B.  Weir  William  H.  Smith 

William  Grant  Edward  T.  Foley 

Victor  Rocheleau  Charles  E.  Herrick 

William  A.  Stevenson  -  George  S.  Whitbeck 

William  C.  Pomeroy  Frederick  G.  Jager 

Hubbard  M.  Abbott  John  McCool 

William  A.  Bailey  Clayton  E.  Davis 

John  E.  Bates  Charles  N.  Fitts 

James  W.  Reid  David  W.  C.  Scates 

Edward  P.  Hall  Charles  S.  Pratt,  Jr. 

George  R.  Spear  Thomas  J.  Hammond,  Sec'y 

ON  ARRANGEMENTS  FOR  BANQUET 

Elbridge  G.  South  wick,  Chairman 

Levv^is  F.  Babbitt  George  D.  Thayer 

Alvin  M.  Locke  Patrick  J.  Bartley 

William  H.  Carson  Sidney  A.  Clark,  Secretary 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  33 


BANQUET  POST-PRANDIAL  EXERCISES 

William  G.  Bassett,  Chairman  and  Toastmaster 
John  W.  Mason  Arthur  Watson 

James  M.  Fay  William  J.  Collins 

Alfred  M.  Fletcher  John  C.  Mangan,  Secretary 

ON  DECORATIONS,  FLOWERS  AND  FIREWORKS 

*Edward  p.  Copeland,  Cliainiiaii 
Warren  M.  King,  Chairman 
John  T.  Dewey  Oscar  F.  Ely 

Edward  J.  Jarvis,  Secretary 

ON  ILLUMINATIONS 

James  W.  Heffernan,  Chairman 
Alexander  McCallum  Benjamin  B.  Hinckley 

Moses  Bassett  Joseph  A.  Boudway 

James  W.  O'Connor  George  H.  Drury,  Secretary 

ON  MUSIC 

Henry  L.  Williams,  Chairman 
John  Prince  Edwin  B.  Story 

Haynes  H.  Chilson  Harry  P.  Eastwood 

Edward  M.  Wilhelmi  Alfred  T.  Bliss 

George  W.  Hillier  Charles  A.  Wheeler 

Albert  E.  Brown  Herbert  E.  Riley,  Secretary 

ON  SALUTE  AND  RINGING  OF  BELLS 

John  P.  Thompson,  Chairman 
Charles  H.  Heald  John  W.  Lyman 

William  R.  Bardwell  Charles  A.  Pierce 

Luke  Day  James  R.  Gilfillan 

Albert  G.  Beckmann  John  J.  Kennedy,  Secretary 

ON  HISTORICAL  LOCALITIES 

Henry  S.  Gere,  Chairman 
A.  Lyman  Williston  Charles  H.  Dickinson 

Joseph  Marsh  Merritt  Clark 

George  L.  Wright  Benjamin  E.  Cook 

Chauncey  E.  Parsons  Sidney  E.  Bridgman 

Henry  R.  Hinckley  Oscar  Edwards 

David  B.  Whitcomb  Watson  L.  Smith 

Luther  J.  Warner  Lewis  D.  Parsons 

Joseph  C.  Williams  Luther  C.  Wright,  Secretary 


♦Deceased  before  Celebration. 


Hon.     Elijah     Hunt     Mills 
United  States  Senator,   1S20-27 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  35 

ON  HISTORICAL  COLLECTIONS 

Thomas  M.  Shepherd,  (liairmau 

Waldo  H.  Whitcomb  Miss  Mary  A.  Jordan 

Frank  L.  Clapp  Osmore  O.  Roberts 

Robert  E.  Edwards  Christopher  Seymour 

Samuel  B.  Parsons  Arthur  K.  Sylvester 

John  L.  Mather  Harry  N.  Gardiner 

William  F.  Pratt  David  J.  Wright 

Seth  S.  Warner  Henry  N.  Ferry 

O.  Wendell  Edwards  Miss  Nancy  L.  Miller 

Miss  Harriet  J.  Kneeland  Mrs.  Gertrude  Q.  Clapp 

Miss  Adelene  Moffat  Mrs.  David  C.  Crafts 
Frank  I.  Washburn,  Secretary 

ON  TRANSPORTATION 

Thomas  A.  Orcutt,  Chairman 

George  Bliss  McCallum  Howard  Clark 

Edwin  C.  Clark  Michael  W.  Meehan 

Philip  Witherell  Louis  H.  Warner,  Secretary 

ON  PRINTING,  PROGRAM  AND  TICKETS 

Charles  F.  Warner,  Chairman 
Dennis  J.  Meehan  Frank  E.  Davis 

John  A.  Ross  Frank  R.  Mantor 

Abbot  L.  Gloyd  Harry  E.  Bicknell,  Secretary 

ON  ANNIVERSARY  BUILDING,  ETC. 

John  C.  Hammond,  CJiainna>i 

Charles  S.  Beals  John  F.  Lambie 

John  L.  Draper  Philip  Gleason 

Edward  N.  Foote  Clarence  K.  Graves,  Secretary 

ON  PRESS 

James  H.  Huntington,  Chairman 

Charles  W.  Pierce  John  L.  Best 

Charles  G.  Fairman  Albert  H.  Carpenter 

Homer  C.  Chapin,  Secretary 


36 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


Hon.     Isaac     C.     Bates 
United  States  Senator,  1841-1845 


AT  the  Springfield  Quarter-Millennial  celebration,  in  1886,  Senatf)r  Henry  L.  Dawes 
said,  in  response  to  the  sentiment,  "The  United  States  Senate:"  "In  that  body 
Massachusetts  has  had  in  the  past  representation  always  worthy  of  her  great  name, 
and  the  high  commission  with  which  she  has  intrusted  that  representation.  After  the  two 
great  names  of  Webster  and  Sumner,  the  illustrious  in  history,  the  old  county  of  Hampshire 
of  blessed  memory — alas,  that  it  was  ever  divided — stands  forth  in  the  front  rank  with  the 
names  she  has  furnished  that  representation.  Caleb  Strong,  one  of  the  first  senators  for 
Massachusetts,  stern,  stubborn,  incorruptible  and  patriotic;  Ashmun,  a  name  illustrious 
in  both  houses  of  Congress  and  at  the  bar  of  the  Commonwealth;  Mills,  the  scholar,  the 
statesman,  and  orator  of  a  listening  and  charmed  Senate;  Isaac  C.  Bates,  whose  voice  rang 
in  my  ear  like  a  silver  trumpet  the  first  time  when,  a  boy,  I  entered  the  court-house  at 
Northamptf)n.  These  were  the  River  Gods  of  their  day,  and  to  these  illustrious  names  the 
old  county  of  Hampshire  may  point  her  present  and  future  generations  for  example  and 
emulation.  " 


T^EACE  to  the  just  man's  memory  —  let  it  grow 

Greener  with  years,  and  blossom  through  the  flight 
Of   ages  ;    let  the   mimic  canvas  show 

His  calm,   benevolent  features  ;    let  the  light 
Stream  on  his  deeds  of  love,  that  shunned  the  sight 

Of  all  but  heaven,  and,  in  the  book  of  Fame, 
The  glorious  record  of   his  virtues  write, 

And  hold  it  up  to  men,  and   bid  them  claim 
A  palm  like  his,  and  catch  from  him  the  hallowed  flame. 

Bryant 


"KT EITHER  present  fame,  nor  war,  nor  power,  nor  wealth,  nor  knowl- 
-^  ^  edge  alone,  shall  secure  an  entrance  to  the  true  and  noble  Val- 
halla (Temple  of  Fame).  There  shall  be  gathered  only  those  who  have 
toiled  each  in  his  own  vocation  for  the  welfare  of  others.  Justice 
and  benevolence  are  higher  than  knowledge  and  power. 

Whittier 


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THE     INVITED      GUESTS 

INFirATION     10     NORTH/iMP'rON,    ENGLAND 

IT  was  a  happy  thought  to  send  an  invitation  to  the  municipal 
authorities  of  the  old  city  of  Northampton,  England,  and  when 
Alderman  Samuel  S.  Campion  of  that  city  was  found  to  be  in  this 
country,  visiting  the  St.  Louis  Exposition,  he  was  speedily  communi- 
cated with,  by  order  of  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee,  and 
promptly  accepted  their  invitation  to  come  to  the  Connecticut  valley, 
later  being  commissioned  by  the  English  city  to  represent  it  at  the 
Quarter-Millennial  Celebration. 

A  handsomely  engrossed  form  of  invitation,  as  shown  on  opposite 
page,  was  forwarded  to  England,  and  brought  forth  the  following  replies, 
sent  before  the  Northampton,  England,  authorities  were  aware  of  Mr. 
Campion's  intention  to  visit  New  England. 

County   Borough  of  XLOWW   C{CX\\'B  OmcC 

(SEAL)  (SuilMiall 

NORTHAMPTON 

Northampton 


Herbert  Hankinson 

■down  Clcrh 
Telphone  No.  236  A.     F.  H.  l6thMay,    1904. 

My  dear  Sir: 

I  am  requested  by  the  Mayor  of  this  Borough,  Edward  Lewis, 
Esquire,  J.  P.,  to  forward  you  herewith  his  acknowledgment  of  the 
kind  invitation  which  accompanied  your  communication  of  the  2nd 
instant. 

Will  vou  be  good  enough  to  lay  it  before  his  Honour  the  Mayor, 
and  Council,  of  your  City? 

With  best  wishes  for  a  very  successful  celebration  of  the  interesting 
250th  Anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Northampton,  Mass. 

I  beg  to  remain, 

Yours  faithfully, 

Herbert  Hankinson, 

Town  Clerk. 
Egbert  L  Clapp,  Esq., 

City  Clerk,  Northampton, 

Massachusetts,  U.  S.  A. 


40  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

XLbc  /IRa^or'6  parlour 

(seal)  tSuilJball 

NORTHAMPTON 

1 6th  May,  1904. 

To  His  Honour  the  Mayor, 

and  the  City  Council,  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  U.S.A. 

Mr.  Mayor  and  Gentlemen: — 

On  behalf  of  myself  and  the  Corporation  of  the  ancient  Borough  of 
Northampton,  England,  I  beg  to  acknowledge  and  to  thank  you  for  the 
invitation  with  which  you  have  honoured  us,  and  for  the  cordial  feeling 
which  prompted  the  invitation,  to  join  with  you  in  your  celebration  of 
the  250th  Anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  your  prosperous  City. 

Owing  partly  to  the  rather  limited  time  available,  and  to  the  fact 
that  on  Thursday,  2nd  June,  the  Town  and  County  of  Northampton  are 
taking  part  in  the  ceremony  of  opening  large  extensions  to  our  General 
Hospital,  it  is  feared  that  no  official  representatives  of  your  English 
namesake  City  can  be  present  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts,  on  the 
5th,  6th  and  7th  June  next. 

None  the  less,  Mr.  Mayor  and  Gentlemen,  I  feel  certain  that  the 
Council  will  appreciate  highly  your  kindness  and  will  join  with  me  in 
heartiest  good  wishes  for  the  growth  and  progress  of  your  City  and  the 
best  welfare  of  its  inhabitants. 

I  shall  also  ask  the  Council  to  order  your  invitation  to  be  duly 
inscribed  in  the  records  of  our  Borough,  which  received  its  first  charter 
from  King  Richard  I  on  i8th  November,  anno  domini,   1189. 

I  have  the  honour  to  be, 

Mr.  Mayor  and  Gentlemen, 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

Edward  Lewis, 

Mayor. 
Countersigned 

Herbert  Hankinson, 
Town  Ch^rk. 


BOARDOF     ALDER  MEN,     1904 

Center  row,  reading  down— William  Grant,  Ward  4,  President;  Henry  C.  Hallett,  Mayor; 
Egbert  I .  Cla  pp.  City  Clerk. 

Right  hand — Alfred  T.  Bliss,  Ward  6;  Lewis  F.  Babbitt,  Ward  2;  Edward  J.  Jarvis, 
Ward  5. 

Left  hand — Dennis  J.  Meehan,  Ward  7;  Moses  Bassett,  Ward  3;  John  J.  Kennedy,  Ward  1. 


COMMON     COUNCIL,      1904 

Center  row,  reading  down — C-larence  E.  Hodgkins,  Ward  4;  George  B.  McCallum,  President, 
Ward  2;  Arthur  C.  Herrick,  Ward  3. 

Right  hand — Alexander  W.  Ewixg,  Ward  0;  Abbot  L.  C!i>oyd,  Ward  2;  Charles  S.  Beals, 
Ward  7;  S.  William  Clark;  Ward  3. 

Left  hand — William  H.  Carson,  Ward  1;  Stephen  M.  Keough,  Ward  5;  Alfred  J.  Preece, 
Ward  4;  James  H.  O'Dea,  Ward  3. 


COMMONCOUNCIL,      1904 

Center  row,  reading  down — George  H.  Drury,  Ward  2;  Roderick  M.  Starkweather,   Ward 
4;  William  E.  Shannon,  Clerk. 

Right  hand — Michael  W.  Meehan,   Ward   5;  John  F.   Mahar,   Ward   .5;  V/ili.iam    .J.   Foran, 
Ward  6;  Edgar  J.  Hebert,  Ward  1. 

Left  hand — Homer  O.   Adams,   Ward    1;  Harry   A.  Stowell,   Ward   7;  Frederick  A.   Esta- 
BROOK,  Ward  6;  George  W.  Hillier,  Ward  7. 


MAYORS    OF    NORTHAMPTON,     1884-1905 


Jasper  E.  Lambie 
1891 


Henry  A.  Kimball 
1894,  1895 


Arthur  G.  Hill 

1887,  1888 


HenryJP.  Field 
1896,  1898 


John  B.  O'Donneli 
1892,  1893 


Benjamin  E.  Cook 
1884,  1885,  1886 


John  L.  Mather 
1897,  1899,  1900 


Jeremiah  Brown 
1889,  1890 


Arthur  Watson 
1901 


Henry  C.  Hallett 
1902,  1903,  1904 


Theobald  M.  Connor 
1905 


GUESTS 


O    F 


THE 


CITY 


District 


Governor  John  L.  Bates. 
Lieutenant-Governor  Curtis  Guild,  Jr. 

COUNCIL 

Roland  C.  Nickerson,  Brewster,  Mass. 


2 — Frederick  S.  Hall,  Taunton,  Mass. 

3 — Edwin  R.  Hoag,  Chelsea,  Mass. 

4 — Michael  J.  Sullivan,  Boston,  Mass. 

5 — George  R.  Jewett,  Salem,  Mass. 

6 — Walter  Scott  Watson,  Lowell,  Mass. 

7 — Arthur  H.  Lowe,  Fitchburg,  Mass. 

8 — Richard  W.  Irwin,  Northampton,  Mass. 


MAYORS 


Patrick  A.  Collins 
Edward  H.  Keith 
Parker  S.  Davis 
AuGUSTiN  J.  Daly 
Edward  E.  Willard 
Charles  A.  Buckley 
Thomas  J.  Boynton 
George  Grime 
Henry  O.  Sawyer 
James  E.  Tolman 
RoswELL  L.  Wood 
Arthur  B.  Chapin 
Cornelius  F.  Lynch 
Charles  E.  Howe 
Henry  W.  Eastham 
Charles  L.  Dean 
Frederick  R.  S.  Mildon 
Charles  Sidney  Baxter 
Sidney  H.  Buttrick 
Charles  S.  Ashley 
James  F.  Carens 
Alonzo  R.  Weed 
Frank  D.  Stafford 
Henry  D.  Sisson 
Charles  M.  Bryant 
Joseph  N.  Peterson 


Boston,  Mass. 
Brockton,  Mass. 
Beverly,  Mass. 
Cambridge,  Mass. 
Chelsea,  Mass. 
Chicopee,  Mass. 
Everett,  Mass. 
Fall  River,  Mass. 
Fitchburg,  Mass. 
Gloucester,  Mass. 
Haverhill,  Mass. 
Holyoke,  Mass. 
Lawrence,  Mass. 
Lowell,  Mass. 
Lynn,  Mass. 
Maiden,  Mass. 
Marlborough,  Mass. 
Medford,  Mass. 
Melrose,  Mass. 
New  Bedford,  Mass. 
Newbury  port,  Mass. 
Newton,  Mass. 
North  Adams,  Mass. 
Pittsfield,  Mass. 
Quincy,  Mass. 
Salem,  Mass. 


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QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Leonard  B.  Chandler 
Everett  E.  Stone 
Richard  E.  Warner 
John  L.  Harvey 
John  P.  Feeny 
Walter  H.  Blodgett 


Somerville,  Mass. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
Taunton,  Mass. 
Waltham,  Mass. 
Woburn,  Mass. 
Worcester,  Mass. 


Hon.  George  P.  Lawrence     North  Adams,  Mass. 
Hon.  Frederick  H.  Gillett    Springfield,  Mass. 
Hon.  Loren  P.  Keyes  New  Marlborough,  Mass. 

Rep.  Harry  E.  Graves  Hatfield,  Mass. 

Rev.  Richard  E.  Birke  Deerfield,  Mass. 

(A  former  resident  of  Northampton,  England.) 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  P.  Cutter,  Librarian-elect  of 

Forbes  Library. 
Major  F.  E.  Pierce  Greenfield,  Mass. 


AS  GUESTS  OF  SHERIFF  J.  E.  CLARK 

Hon.    Loranus    E.    Hitchcock,   Justice   of   Superior 

Court,  Chicopee. 
CoL.  Embury  P:  Clark,  Sheriff  of  Hampden  County, 

Springfield. 
Hon.    Isaac   Chenery,    Sheriff  of   Franklin   County, 

Greenfield. 
Hon.   Dana  Malone,   District  Attornev,   Greenfield. 


CHAIRMEN    OF 

Charles  E.  Wakefield 
Nelson  Randall 
Irving  Rice 
Darwin  E.  Lyman 
JosiAH  W.  Flint 
Edward  C.  Packard 
Samuel  B.  Dickinson, 
George  B.  Walker 
Francis  S.  Reynolds 
Matthew  J.  Ryan 
Leonard  F.  Hardy,  Esq. 
George  W.  Cottrell 
John  L.  Brewer 
F.  a.  Holden 
Walter  M.  Waugh 


SELECTMEN 

Amherst,  Mass. 
Belchertown,  Mass. 
Chesterfield,  Mass. 
Cummington,  Mass. 
Enfield,  Mass. 
Goshen,  Mass. 
Granby,  Mass. 
Greenwich,  Mass. 
Hadley,  Mass. 
Hatfield,  Mass. 
Huntington,  Mass. 
Middlefield,  Mass. 
Pelham,  Mass. 
Plainfield,  Mass. 
Prescott,  Mass. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


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John  E.  Lyman 
George  D.  Storrs 
Lawrence  Malloy 
Samuel  Cole 
Robert  E.  Pray 


South  Hadley,  Mass. 
Ware,  Mass. 
Williamsburg,  Mass. 
Worthington,  Mass. 
Greenfield,  Mass. 


EASTHAMPTON  TOWN  OFFICERS 

Selectmen 

Jairus  F.  Burt,  CJiairman        George  S.  Colton 

John  Cullen 
Lucius  E.  Parsons  Watson  H.  Wright 

John  N.  Lyman  Winslow  H.  Edwards 

Joseph  W.  Wilson,  Toivn  Clerk 

SOUTHAMPTON 

Selectmen 

George  H.  Lyon,  Chairman     Albert  L  G.  Quigley 

Martin  Norris 
Frederick  E.  Judd,  Toivii  Clerk 
Homer  O.  Strong,  Moderator 

WESTHAMPTON 

Selectmen 

A.  Drury  Rice,  Chairman        Dwight  S.  Bridgman 

Edwin  B.  Clapp 
Francis  A.  Loud,  Toicii  Clerk 


ACTION  TAKEN  BY  THE  TOWNS  OF 
3^  3^  3^  3^  EASTHAMPTON  3^  3^  3^  3^ 
SOUTHAMPTON    &   WESTHAMPTON 


IT  is  of  course  understood  that  the  town  authorities  of  Easthampton, 
Southampton  and  Westhampton  were  invited  to  take  part  in  the 
Celebration,  because  those  towns  were  originally  a  part  of  North- 
ampton. The  response  of  these  towns  was  very  gratifying  to  the  Exec- 
utive Committee.  The  board  of  selectmen  in  each  place  met  promptly 
and  at  once  showed  a  desire  to  co-operate  with  the  authorities  in  this 
city,  towards  making  the  celebration  a  success.  They  appointed,  in  the 
several  towns,  the  men  named  as  invited,  and  soon  appeared  at  the 
City  Hall,  seeking  information  as  to  how  they  could  best  co-operate. 
The  Executive  Committee  introduced  them  to  Captain  Irwin,  chair- 
man of  the  Parade  Committee,  and  he  advised  that  they  show  their 
interest  by  the  construction  of  such  floats  for  the  parade  as  seemed  to 
them  best  suited  to  represent  their  towns.  This  suggestion  was  favor- 
ably received  by  the  committees  from  the  three  towns,  and  the  result 
was  the  admirable  display,  typical  of  country  town  life  and  aspirations, 
that  excited  such  pleasure  and  admiration  from  the  multitude  which 
viewed  the  parade,  as  described  in  subsequent  pages. 


E  A  S  T  n  A  M  P  T  O  N     TOWN     COMMITTEE 

To]!  row.  left  to  right — Jairus  F.  Burt,  George  S.  Coltox,  John  Cullex,  Selectmen. 

Center — Joseph  W.  Wilson,  Town  Clerk;  Watson  H.  Wright. 

Bottom — Lucius  E.  Parsons,  Wixsi.ow  H.  Edwards   John  N.  Lyman. 


SOUTHAMPTON     T  O  W  xN     COMMITTEE 

Top — Michael  Norris,  Selectman. 

Center,  left  to  right— Homer  O.  Strong,  Moderator;  Frederick  E.  Judd,  Town  Clerk. 

Bottom — George  H.  Eyon,  Albert  I.  G.  Quigley,  Selectmen. 


W  E  S  T  H  A  M  P  T  O  N     TOWN     COMMITTEE 


Top — Edwi.v  B.  Clapp,  Selectman. 

Center,  left  to  right — Dwight  S.  Bridg.man,  A.  Drury  Rice,  Selectmen. 

Bottom — Francis  A.  Loud,  Town  Clerk. 


EXECUTIVE   AND    FINANCE   COMMITTEE    OF    THE   CELEBRATION 

First  row,  top,  left  to  right  —  Edward  E.  Wood,  Timothy  G.  Spauldino,  Chauncey  H.  Pierce. 
Second    row — George    Watson    Ci.ark,     Treasurer;    Mayor    Henry    C.    Hallett,    Chairman; 
Egbert  I.  Clapp,  Secretary  of  Committee. 

Third  row — Samuei,  W.  Lee,  Frank  N.  Look,  Charles  B.  Kingsley,  Edwin  H.  Banister. 
Fourth  row — Adolphe  Menard,  Theobald  M.  Connor,  Edgar  F.  Crooks. 


PREPARATI 

1 

O      N     S 

COMMITTEES     BEGIN    THEIR 

LABORS 

WITH  the  definite  announcement  of  the  plans  for  celebration 
and  the  appointment  of  committees,  the  way  seemed  clear 
for  rapid  work  in  preparations,  but  it  was  some  weeks 
before  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  secured  from  the  City 
Council  the  appropriation  which  they  required,  and  all  committees 
worked  for  a  while  in  a  tentative  way.  The  authorities,  however,  finally 
voiced  the  spirit  of  loyalty  and  appreciation  of  the  historic  occasion 
which  prevailed  among  the  people  of  the  city,  by  making  a  generous 
appropriation,  and  to  this  act,  in  large  measure,  was  due  the  final 
success. 


WORK     OF      THE      VARIOUS      COMMITTEES 

When  the  appropriations  had  been  made,  the  work  of  preparing  for 
the  Celebration  went  forward  more  rapidly.  After  the  plans  had  been 
adopted,  and  the  committees  had  been  appointed  to  carry  them 
out,  Timothy  G.  Spaulding,  chairman  of  the  sub -Provisional 
Committee,  which  had  formulated  the  work,  was  obliged,  in  consequence 
of  impaired  health,  and  by  the  advice  of  physicians,  to  relinquish  his 
intention  of  taking  a  leading  part,  as  a  member  of  the  Executive  and 
Finance  Committee,  and  content  himself  with  doing  what  he  could 
in  a  different  capacity.  There  were  other  resignations,  for  various 
reasons;  but  there  was  no  hesitation  or  faltering  with  the  Executive 
Committee,  which  promptly  filled  vacancies  and  brought  forward  other 
capable  men,  who  sprang  eagerly  to  the  various  divisions  of  work,  and 
faithfully  performed  the  tasks  assigned  them.  The  great  enterprise 
received  a  severe  shock,  however,  and  the  whole  city  was  saddened,  by 
the  death  of  Edward  P.  Copeland,  April  7.  Mr.  Copeland  was  the  versa- 
tile and  talented  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Decorations.  He  had 
made  a  special  study  of  the  matter  of  decorating  for  this  great 
occasion,  and  had  evolved  a  color  scheme  and  general  arrangement  of 
an  original  and  unique  sort,  which  was  subsequently  carried  out,  for 
the  most  part,  by  his  able  successor  to  the  chairmanship,  Warren  M. 
King. 


54  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Executive  an&  jFinancc  Committee 

The  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  were  of  course  in  the  fore- 
front of  the  administrative  work  of  the  Celebration,  and  the  untiring 
zeal  and  energy  which  they  exercised,  night  and  day,  with  the  indefati- 
gable services  of  their  Secretary,  City  Clerk  Egbert  I.  Clapp,  was  what 
enabled  the  various  sub-committees  to  carry  out  their  plans  in  such 
perfection.  They  were  encouraged  from  time  to  time  by  the  warm 
approval  of  the  local  press,  and  a  pleasing  incident  to  them  was  the 
receipt  of  a  check  for  $ioo  from  Mrs.  Martha  Strong  Harris  of  New 
London,  Conn.  Mrs.  Harris  is  a  native  of  Northampton,  daughter  of  the 
late  Hon.  Lewis  Strong,  and  granddaughter  of  Governor  Caleb  Strong. 
She,  learning  that  the  committee  would  appreciate  any  subscriptions 
which  might  be  tendered,  forwarded  the  check  to  City  Clerk  Clapp,  and 
the  committee  expressed  their  thanks  to  Mrs.  Harris  in  fitting  terms,  by 
resolution.  Among  other  important  actions  of  the  Executive  Committee 
was  their  authorization  to  the  Printing  Committee  to  print  a  handsome 
official  souvenir  program,  at  an  expense  of  several  hundred  dollars. 
The  committee  appropriated  $200  for  designing,  engraving  and  emboss- 
ing, and  the  enterprise  was  carried  out  by  the  Kingsbury  Box  Company 
of  Northampton.  As  the  whole  expense  was  much  larger  than  the 
amount  appropriated  by  the  committee,  the  printers  were  allowed  to 
sell  copies  to  the  general  public,  after  furnishing  the  citv  1,000  copies 
for  its  guests. 

The  committee  were  called  upon  to  consider  a  great  number  of 
matters  not  provided  for  in  their  original  program,  and  which,  being 
accepted  by  them,  proved  of  much  usefulness  and  value  to  the  general 
scheme  of  public  entertainment  and  comfort.  One  of  these  matters 
was  the  giving  of  the  Colonial  Reception  and  Ball,  tendered  by  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  an  account  of  which  will  be 
found  toward  the  close  of  the  work.  Another  was  the  Public  Comfort 
House,  provided  by  the  Home  Culture  Clubs,  elsewhere  described. 

A  matter  which  occasioned  much  trouble  to  the  committee  was  the 
difficulty  in  securing  badges  for  the  general  public.  An  order  for  a  few 
thousand  was  given,  but  these  were  delivered  barely  in  time  to  be  of 
use,  and  were  quickly  snatched  up  by  the  citizens.  Then  it  was  too 
late  to  secure  more,  and  a  horde  of  fancy  badge  sellers  from  out  of  town 
had  to  be  admitted  to  sell,  bv  license,  on  the  streets. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  55 

The  most  difficult  part  of  the  Executive  Committee's  work  was  the 
apportioning  of  the  City  Council's  appropriation  among  the  sub-com- 
mittees, but  this  was  finally  done,  and  with  such  excellent  judgment 
and  fairness  that  none  could  reasonably  find  fault. 

printing  anD  llnvitation  Gommittees 

The  first  committee  to  organize  was  the  important  one  on  Printing, 
and  this  was  almost  immediately  followed  by  the  equally  important  one 
on  Invitations.  The  work  of  these  two  committees  was  closely  related, 
and  required  the  time  of  one  man  every  day  for  several  months  previous 
to  the  Celebration.  The  chairman  of  the  Printing  Committee,  who 
was  also  secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Invitations,  was  at  the  City 
Hall  every  day,  conducting  his  part  of  the  work,  and  receiving  names 
and  addresses,  and  suggestions  from  citizens.  The  object  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Invitations  was  to  bring  knowledge  of  the  approaching  event 
to  everv  son  and  daughter  of  the  old  town,  wherever  located,  even  in 
foreign  lands.  For  this  purpose,  notice  was  given  by  circular  and 
through  the  daily  press,  that  the  committee  desired  to  obtain  the 
names  and  addresses  of  all  those  interested,  or  likely  to  be  interested,  in 
returning  to  the  old  town.  Addressed  postal  cards  were  also  sent  out  in 
the  following  form  to  about  one  thousand  citizens,  to  facilitate  the  work  : 

NoRTH.\MPTON,  Mass.,  Marcli  15,  1904. 
The  Committee  on  Invitations,  for  the  250th  Anniversary  Celebration 
of  the  citv  of  Northampton,  understand  you  to  be  a  resident  of  the  city, 
a  representative  of  some  of  its  old  families,  and  sufficiently  well  acquaint- 
ed to  be  able  to  give  the  names  and  addresses  of  some  former  residents 
or  friends  who  would  be  pleased  to  receive  an  invitation  to  the  exercises 
of  next  June.  This  committee  will,  therefore,  greatly  appreciate  any 
returns  you  may  make  on  the  annexed  card. 

Do  not  hesitate  because  you  may  think  it  as  well  to  give  your 
friends  an  invitation  yourself.  You  can  do  that  also,  but  any  one  who 
feels  interested  in  the  old  town  will  be  doubly  pleased  and  complimented 
by  an  official  invitation  from  authorized  representatives  of  the  city. 
Prompt  attention  to  this  matter  will  very  much  aid  in  our  work. 

Louis  L.  Campbell,  Chairman. 

Charles  F.  Warner,  Secretary. 

The  response  to  these  notices  was  very  gratifying;  so  much  so  that 
the  committee  were  several  times  obliged  to  extend  the  date  set  for  the 
closing  of  the  invitation  list;  and,  practically,  invitations  had  to  be 


CHAIRMEN     OF     SUB-COMMITTEES 

Top  row,  reading  from  left  to  right — Ernest  W.  Hardy,    on    Reception    and   Entertainment; 
Richard  W.  Irwin,  Panide;  Louis  L.  Campbell,  Invitations. 

Center — Charles  F.  Warner,  Printing;  Warren  M.  King,  Decorations. 

Bottom — Jacob  H.  Carfrey,  Children's  E.rercises;  Elbridge  G.  Southwick.  Bunquet;  John  C. 
Hammond,  Anniver.iory  Tent. 


CHAIRMEN     OF     S  U  B - C  O  M  M  I  T  T  E  E  S 

Top  row,  reading  from  left  to  right— Thomas  A.   Orcutt,  on   TransportatioJi;  James  W.  Hef- 
FERNAN,  I Uunu nations;  James  H.  Huxtixgton,  Press. 

Center — Thomas  M.  Shepherd,  Historical  Collections. 

Bottom — John  T.  Keating,  Games  and  Sports;  Henry  L.  Williams,  Music;  John  P.  Thomp- 
son', Salutes  and  Ringing  of  Bells. 


58  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

sent  out  up  to  a  day  or  two  before  the  Celebration,  in  a  few  special  cases. 
The  strikingly  beautiful  and  unique  form  of  invitations  issued  was  one 
reason  for  the  long-continued  call  for  them  by  citizens,  to  be  sent  to 
their  friends  and  relatives.  They  were  printed  on  hand-made,  deckle- 
edge  paper,  in  old  English  missal  type  and  fashion,  and  many  were  sold 
as  souvenirs  during  the  Celebration  days.  In  no  case  were  thev  given 
out  to  the  local  people  for  distribution,  because  they  were  costly  prints 
and  the  demand  for  them  would  far  have  exceeded  the  supply.  Besides, 
it  was  deemed  best  that  the  invitation  should  go  direct  from  the  com- 
mittee, to  whom  the  replies  were  to  be  addressed,  with  proper,  corrected 
addresses  and  such  additional  information  as  the  committee  desired. 
About  8,000  of  the  missal  type  invitations  were  sent  out,  and  the  com- 
mittee received  many  letters  expressing  admiration  for  the  fine  design 
and  the  typographical  work,  which  latter  part  was  done  by  the  Kings- 
bury Box  Company  of  Northampton. 

The  invitations  brought  many  replies  from  the  absent  sons  and 
daughters  from  all  over  the  country,  and  some  of  the  letters  were  so 
interesting  and  pungent  with  valuable  reminiscence  that  they  were 
given  to  the  local  press,  and  added  to  the  gradually  increasing  popular 
interest  and  enthusiasm.  The  committee  then  discussed  a  proposition 
to  send  out  a  renewal  invitation,  in  plainer  form,  together  with  a  clear 
and  detailed  statement  of  what  the  Celebration  would  comprehend;  as 
it  was  hinted,  in  the  original  invitation,  such  a  statement,  in  the  nature 
of  a  program,  would  follow  the  formal  invitation.  Many  delays  pre- 
vented the  rounding  out  of  the  plans  of  the  Executive  Committee  in 
such  shape  that  an  authoritative,  complete  and  detailed  program  could 
be  given  at  so  early  a  date,  but  the  Invitation  Committee  made  up  a 
form  of  renewal  invitation  as  follows: 


COMMITTEE     ON     INVITATIONS 


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jD^or  5zV  or  Madam: 

We  have  already  had  the  pleasure  of  forwarding  to  you,  in  the  name  of  the 
Citv  of  Northampton,  an  invitation  to  the  exercises  attending  the  Celebration  of 
the  Quarter-Millennial  or  250th  Anniversary  of  the  Settlement  of  this  ancient 
town,  and  herewith  we  hand  you  blanks,  which,  properly  filled  out,  will  aid  the 
committee  in  ascertaining  certain  facts.  If  you  accept  this  invitation,  kindly 
call  at  the  City  Hall  upon  your  arrival  and  register. 

The  plans  of  the  Executive  Committee,  as  to  program,  are  now  so  far  com- 
pleted that  we  are  able  to  promise  all  who  come  to  the  city  June  5,  6  and  7,  a  di- 
versified and  interesting  series  of  entertainments. 

While  the  details  of  the  Celebration  have  not  yet  been  wholly  worked  out, 
thev  may  be  outlined  in  a  general  way,  as  follows:  The  Celebration  will  begin 
Sunday,  June  5,  in  the  churches,  with  appropriate  exercises  in  the  morning,  as 
each  church  may  deem  proper,  and  in  the  evening  a  grand  free  sacred  concert 
will  be  given,  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  Story,  who  will,  with  the  co-operation 
of  the  church  choirs,  give  considerable  old-time  popular  church  music,  as  written 
bv  the  late  Prof.  George  Kingsley  of  this  city,  and  others. 

For  Monday,  June  6,  there  will  be  indoor  exercises  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.,  which 
will  include  an  address  of  welcome  and  oration.  At  2  p.  m.  there  will  be  a  chil- 
dren's parade,  and  during  the  afternoon,  games  and  sports.  In  the  evening  the 
Northampton  Vocal  Club,  an  organization  of  which  the  city  is  justly  proud,  will 
give  a  concert,  supported  by  the  magnificent  Festival  Orchestra  of  Boston,  after 
which  a  reception  w'ill  be  given  to  Governor  Bates. 

On  Tuesday,  June  7,  there  will  be  a  great  parade  of  civic  societies,  with  his- 
toric floats,  etc.,  at  about  9.30  o'clock,  with  a  banquet  at  i  o'clock,  and  after- 
dinner  speaking.  *A  River  Carnival  is  in  process  of  organization  for  the  early 
evening  hours,   with   following  fireworks. 

A  large  tent  will  be  erected  upon  the  Forbes  Library  lawn,  for  assembly  pur- 
poses, and  will  serve  as  a  place  for  general  resort  during  other  hours. 

Now,  in  the  name  of  the  City  of  Northampton,  we  renew  the  invitation 
formerly  given  you,  to  meet  with  us,  in  memory  of  Old  Home  Days,  Sunday, 
Monday  and  Tuesday,  June  5,  6  and  7  next,  to  renew  the  memories  of  "Auld 
Lang  Syne,"  recall  the  names  of  those  who  made  the  old  town  famous,  and  glorify 
the  deeds  and  monuments  of  beneficence  which  have  made  Northampton  an  im- 
portant feature  of  state  and  national  historv. 

We  ask  your  kindly  immediate  attention  to  the  accompanying  blank. 

Louis  L.  Campbell,  Chairman. 
Charles  F.  Warner,  Secretary. 

♦The  project  of  a  river  carnival  was  afterwards  abandoned,  for  several  reasons. 


60  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Accompanying  this  second  invitation  was  a  blank  form  for  the  use 
of  the  recipient,  in  fiUing  out  full  address,  with  statement  as  to  whether 
he  or  she  accepted  the  invitation;  was  a  native,  a  past  resident,  or  onlv 
a  friend  of  or  an  occasional  visitor  to  the  town.  The  recipient  was  also 
requested  to  state  whether  his  ancestors  at  any  time  resided  in  the  town. 
A  division  blank,  on  the  same  sheet,  was  printed  for  the  convenience 
of  the  Entertainment  and  Reception  Committee,  and  this  asked  the 
recipient  to  state  whether  he  desired  board  or  lodging,  or  both,  while  in 
the  city;  what  price  he  would  like  to  pay,  and  whether  he  would  prefer 
to  stop  with  private  family  or  at  a  hotel.  He  was  also  requested  to 
state  whether  he  would  like  to  have  a  banquet  ticket  reserved  for  him. 
A  printed  envelope,  addressed  to  the  secretary  of  the  committee,  was 
enclosed,  and  the  second  form  of  invitation  as  above  given,  with  blank 
and  return  envelope,  was  mailed  to  all  who  received  the  original  invita- 
tion, within  about  a  month  after  the  first  invitations  were  sent  out. 

The  second  invitation  brought  forth  many  more  replies  than  the 
first,  as  those  invited  wxre  now  better  able  to  grasp  the  scope  of  the 
Celebration.  Many  were  also  pleased  to  be  again  remembered  and 
urged  to  come.  Of  course  there  were  some  at  a  distance,  who  responded 
regretfully,  that  they  could  not  come,  but  the  host  of  favorable  responses 
brought  much  pleasure  to  the  committee.  If  there  had  been  time  it 
is  doubtless  true  that  a  third,  still  more  urgent,  invitation  would  have 
brought  out  a  considerable  additional  favorable  response,  but  the  Cele- 
bration hours  were  rapidly  approaching,  and  the  committee  had  to  be 
content  with  what  they  had  done.  It  was  a  curious  fact  that  the  blanks 
intended  for  the  information  of  the  Entertainment  Committee  were  not 
much  used,  as  most  of  the  people  invited  from  out  of  town  came  to 
stay  with  relatives  or  friends  while  in  the  city,  and  did  not  need  to  apply 
for  entertainment.  Yet  the  hotels  were  all  filled  on  the  second  and 
third  days  of  the  Celebration,  mostly  by  honorary  guests  of  the  city 
and  by  others  whose  former  family  connections  here  had  passed  away. 
There  were  about  one  hundred  calls  for  banquet  tickets  on  the  blanks 
sent  out. 

The  secretary  of  the  Invitation  Committee  enrolled  alphabetically 
the  addresses  of  those  invited,  in  small  books,  by  states  and  sections  of 
country,  and  as  about  4,000  names  were  obtained  in  this  way,  a  collec- 
tion of  much  value  was  made,  which,  together  with  the  card  index  later, 
made  by  the  Entertainment  Committee,  forms  as  complete  a  director}' 


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of  old  Northampton  residents  as  probably  could  be  made.  This  col- 
lection is  now  in  the  hands  of  the  City  Clerk. 

The  Executive  and  Finance  Committee  took  charge  of  the  matter 
of  sending  out  invitations  to  the  invited  guests  of  honor — the  Governor, 
mayors  of  cities,  selectmen  of  towns,  etc.,  and  for  this  purpose  elegant 
script  invitations  were  prepared  by  Egbert  I.  Clapp,  City  Clerk  and 
Secretary  of  the  committee,  in  the  form  shown  on  opposite  page. 

The  first  work  of  the  Printing  Committee  was  to  issue  an  adver- 
tising envelope,  with  reading  matter,  as  given  on  another  page. 
These  envelopes  were  sold  to  the  merchants  at  nearly  cost  price,  the 
small  profit  made  accruing  to  the  printer.  The  business  men  were  asked 
to  use  these  envelopes  in  their  correspondence  for  the  two  months  pre- 
ceding the  Celebration,  to  advertise  the  city  and  its  Anniversarv.  Over 
125,000  of  these  envelopes  were  sold  and  many  were  saved  as  souvenirs. 

In  an  early  stage  of  the  preparations  the  Printing  Committee  voted 
to  offer  a  prize  of  ^10  to  any  pupil  or  graduate  of  the  high  school, 
under  twenty-one  years  of  age,  who  would  make  a  suitable  design  for 
the  cover  of  an  official  souvenir  program.  Several  designs  of  more  or 
less  merit  were  handed  in,  but  the  best  design,  yet  one  which  did  not 
quite  meet  the  Committee's  ideas,  was  made  by  Harry  S.  Whitbeck  of 
Northampton,  studying  in  the  Pratt  Institute  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
in  his  twenty-third  year.  As  he  had  not  understood  the  terms  of  com- 
petition he  was  given  a  consolation  prize  of  five  dollars,  by  a  member 
of  the  Committee.  The  design  includes,  as  a  sketch,  the  Jonathan  Ed- 
wards elm  and  site  of  the  old  homestead.  The  design  for  the  souvenir 
cover  finally  used  is  shown  on  page  65. 

This  cover  design  was  printed  on  a  cover  of  heav}'  fawn-colored 
paper,  the  tablet  containing  the  words,  "Official  Program,"  the  scroll, 
"Quarter-Millennial,"  the  dates  "1654  and  1904,"  and  oblong  border, 
with  the  seal  and  place  and  date  of  Celebration  embossed  and  printed 
in  bronze  and  the  rest  in  bright  green  ink.  The  city  seal  also  appeared 
embossed  in  bronze,  in  larger  form  on  the  back  of  the  cover. 

The  inside  pages  of  the  souvenir  had  upon  the  first  page  vignettes 
of  the  three  principal  churches  of  the  city,  the  First,  Edwards,  and  St. 
John's,  and  the  words,  "Northampton,  Mass.,  settled  1654,  incorporated 
a  city,  1884."  The  second  page  contained  a  group  of  the  principal 
pubhc  buildings,  such  as  the  City  Hall,  Forbes  Library,  Memorial  Hall, 
Academy  of  Music,   Smith  College,   Dickinson  Hospital,   Lillv  Library 


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and  Cosmian  Hall.  Upon  the  next  page  the  announcement  of  services 
in  the  churches  on  Anniversary  Sunday  was  prefaced  by  the  portrait 
of  Jonathan  Edwards.  On  the  next  two  facing  pages,  over  the  program 
for  the  "Service  of  Song,  "  and  on  several  others,  were  views  in  different 
parts  of  the  city,  flanked  by  vignettes  of  fanciful  female  figures,  person- 
ifying Religion  and  Education,  one  holding  a  book  in  hand  and  the  other 
a  cross.  With  the  program  of  Monday's  exercises  appeared  portraits 
of  President  L.  Clark  Seelye,  Hon.  John  D.  Long,  Northampton's  eleven 
year  Governor  of  the  state,  Hon.  Caleb  Strong,  and  Hon.  John  L.  Bates, 
Governor  in  the  quarter-millenial  year.     The  two  following  pages  were 


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Sketch  of  Competitive  Design  for  a  Program  Cover,  by  a  High  School  Pupil, 
showing  Edwards  Elm  and  Wliitney  Homestead  on  the  right 

devoted  to  pictures  of  the  past  mayors  of  the  city  and  members  of  the 
Executive  Committee.  Other  pages  following  gave  the  program  for 
other  days,  and  were  headed  bv  other  views  about  the  city. 

Owing  to  the  short  time  which  the  Committee  on  Printing  had  to 
work  upon  the  program,  it  was  not  produced  until  the  vSaturday  before 
the  Celebration,  and  there  was  but  a  limited  time  for  its  sale.  Several 
thousands  were  disposed  of,  but  the  printers  did  not  reap  the  reward 
they  deserved  for  their  enterpris'^,  and  some  copies  were  left  on  hand. 
So  long  as  they  last,  the  printers  will  doubtless  be  glad  to  supply  orders 
for  them,  and  as  they  were  a  very  artistic  feature  of  the  part  which  the 


66  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

"art  preservative"  took  in  the  Celebration,  those  who  have  a  copy  of 
this  book  should  also  procure  a  copy  of  the  souvenir  to  somewhere  attach 
to  it. 


^Entertainment  anO  IReception  Committee 

The  hardest  work  of  the  occasion,  in  so  short  a  space  of  time,  was 
done  by  the  Entertainment  and  Reception  Committee,  of  which  Ernest 
W.  Hardy  was  chairman.  This  committee  had  as  its  special  charge 
Governor  and  Mrs.  John  L.  Bates  of  Boston,  to  be  entertained  by  Coun- 
cilor and  Mrs.  Richard  W.  Irwin;  Alderman  Samuel  S.  Campion  of 
Northampton,  England,  who  was  entertained  as  a  guest  of  the  city  by 
Timothy  G.  Spaulding  at  the  Norwood  Hotel  (located  on  the  site  of 
the  old  homestead  of  the  late  John  Clarke,  one  of  the  town's  greatest 
benefactors,  and  where  many  other  notabilities  stayed  during  the 
Celebration);  and  George  Sheldon  of  Deerfield,  entertained  by  Frederick 
N.  Kneeland  and  Mrs.  Henry  Lathrop;  also  the  Governor's  staff,  enter- 
tained by  Col.  Henry  L.  Williams. 

For  the  convenience  of  guests  and  visitors  at  large,  the  committee 
had  made  ample  and  comprehensive  preparations,  far  exceeding  in 
detail  any  ever  attempted  anywhere  else,  on  a  similar  occasion,  so  far 
as  is  known.  The  hotel  and  registration  scheme  was  an  original  one. 
To  meet  his  plans  Chairman  Hardy  turned  the  city  practically  into  a 
vast  hotel.  By  means  of  blanks,  sent  out  weeks  in  advance,  he  obtained 
the  names  and  location  of  every  person  in  the  city  who  had  rooms  to  let 
or  who  would  furnish  meals.  This  information  was  placed  in  the  reg- 
istration booth  at  the  union  depot,  and  this  place  was,  to  all  intents  and 
purposes,  a  great  hotel  office.  The  clerks  in  charge  had  at  their  command 
a  dozen  messengers.  Visitors  arriving  on  the  trains,  as  requested, 
reported  promptly  at  the  depot  booth,  upon  their  arrival,  and  were 
assigned  at  once  to  the  quarters  engaged  by  them  then  or  beforehand ; 
the  messengers  then  took  their  baggage  in  hand  and  accompanied  them 
to  the  places  provided.  Owing  to  the  fact  that  the  Committee  on  Invi- 
tations had  so  few  replies  to  the  blanks  sent  out  for  the  guidance  of  the 
Entertainment  Committee,  it  was  reported  in  the  press,  at  the  time,  that 
the  latter  committee  had  little  to  do  in  the  way  of  providing  board  and 
lodging  for  visitors,  but  th.is  was  not  so;  for,  while  few  reported  to 
the  Invitation  Committee  by  letter,  a  large  number  did  later,  to  the 


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other  committee,  and  many  more  decided  at  the  last  moment  to  come, 
and  their  first  claim  to  the  committee's  attention  came  at  the  depot 
booth.  Thus,  while  the  great  majority  of  the  visitors  to  the  city  were 
guests  of  their  relatives  and  friends  while  here,  the  Entertainment  Com- 
mittee had  to  care  for  several  hundred  more. 

There  were  five  information  booths  in  the  city,  including  the  com- 
bined registration  and  information  booth  in  the  City  Hall.  The  first 
l)Ooth,  already  described,  was  at  the  depot,  the  second  at  the  corner  of 
the  court-house  yard,  the  third  in  the  office  of  the  Superintendent  of 
Streets  at  the  City  Hall,  the  fourth  (combined  with  registration)  in  the 
City  Hall  corridor,  and  the  fifth  on  the  Forbes  Library  grounds.  These 
booths  bore  the  large,  striking  sign,  "Ask  the  Man!"  and  were  open 
from  seven  o'clock  in  the  morning  until  eleven  o'clock  at  night,  every 
day  from  Saturday  to  Tuesday  inclusive. 

The  system  of  registration  at  the  City  Hall  corridor  was  so  surpris- 
ingly simple  and  effective  that  i-t  is  strange  it  has  not  been  thought  of 
before  elsewhere.  On  one  side  of  the  corridor  was  arranged  a  long  bank 
or  desk,  sufficient  to  accommodate  a  dozen  or  more  writers.  Here  pens 
and  ink  and  blank  cards  were  supplied,  and  as  fast  as  visitors  came  in, 
in  response  to  the  sign  outside',  "Register  Now,"  they  were  directed 
what  to  do.  The  cards  had  blank  lines  to  fill  in,  showing  narfie  and 
address,  place  where  the  visitor  was  stopping  while  in  the  city,  when  he 
arrived  and  when  he  proposed  to  depart.  As  fast  as  these  cards  were 
filled  out  they  were  gathered  up  by  the  clerks  and  filed  away,  alphabeti- 
cally, in  the  usual  card  index  fashion.  This  registry  was  availed  of  by 
nearly  all  visitors  to  the  citv  who  came  to  stay  anv  length  of  time,  and 
over  3,500  names  were  recorded  during  the  three  days.  Ordinarily, 
on  such  an  occasion,  the  custom  has  been  to  place  one  or  more  books 
for  registry  in  several  places,  in  hopes  to  catch  the  attention  of  some 
who  might  not  visit  all  places,  but  the  superiority  of  Mr.  Hardy's  plan 
was  shown  in  having  one  central  point  for  registry,  with  which  the  whole 
city  was  familiar.  Here  the  telephone  was  kept  busy  every  moment, 
almost,  answering  the  inquiries  of  people  concerning  their  friends,  whether 
they  had  arrived,  where  they  were  stopping,  etc.  This  registry  was  the 
means  of  bringing  many  friends  and  relatives  together  who  might  not 
otherwise  have  met,  as  the  card  index  furnished  a  temporary  directory 
of  practically  all  the  visitors  in  the  city. 


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Besides  furnishing  information,  the  parties  in  charge  of  the  various 
booths  were  commissioned  to  sell  badges,  buttons,  souvenirs  and  author- 
ized guides,  and  the  gross  receipts  from  such  sales  was  afterwards  found 
to  be  $425.  The  overdraft  on  the  general  appropriation  fund  made  by 
this  committee  was  nearly  offset  by  these  receipts,  for  which  they  were 
given  no  credit.  All  the  booths  were  equipped  with  telephones  by  the 
local  company,  without  charge,  and  this  service  also  contributed  greatly 
to  the  success  of  the  committee's  work. 

Chairman  Hardy  had  at  his  service  a  carriage  with  three  relays  of 
horses,  for  use  in  the  forenoon,  afternoon  and  evening,  respectively,  and 
these  teams  were  in  charge  of  Jean  H.  Hallett,  who  gave  unremitting 
service,  with  the  chairman,  during  the  three  days  of  the  Celebration. 
The  clerks  and  ixfessengers  in  the  employ  of  the  committee  worked  in 
eight-hour  shifts,  but  Mr.  Hardy  and  young  Hallett  worked  eighteen 
hours  a  day  throughout,  and  found  it  the  biggest  task  of  their  lives. 
Miss  Bessie  M.  Ferris  was  bookkeeper  and  in  charge  of  the  stock 
distribution  at  the  City  Hall  booth  office,  and  the  information  and 
registration  booths  were  in  charge  of  the  following:  At  the  depot, 
Henry  E.  Partridge  and  Robert  A.  Bosworth;  court-house  yard, 
Thomas  F.  Ahearn  and  John  F.  Ahearn;  Forbes  Library  grounds, 
Wilham  Thayer  and  Frank  A.  Mayhew;  Superintendent  of  Streets  office, 
Edward  L.  Shaughnessy  and  Frank  D.  Wilcox;  City  Hall  combined 
registration  and  information  booth,  Oliver  B.  Bradley  and  Julian  F.  Weir. 

Chairman  Hardy  had  the  satisfaction,  at  least,  after  all  his  hard 
work,  of  having  manv  prominent  people  from  out  of  town  come  to  him, 
during  the  three  days,  and  say  that  they  had  never  seen  any  place  where 
matters  were  so  comprehensively  and  clearly  arranged  for  the  reception 
of  visitors  on  such  an  occasion.  The.  fact  was  that  strangers  or  general 
visitors,  in  doubt  about  any  matter,  had  very  little  to  worry  about. 
Once  they  made  up  their  minds  what  they  wanted,  all  they  had  to  do 
was  to  "Ask  the  Man."  This  open  invitation  to  "Ask  the  Man"  was 
naturally  the  cause  of  much  merriment,  but  the  injvmction  provoked 
so  much  inquiry  that  it  vindicated  its  usefulness  to  a  surprising  degree. 

Committee  on  iparaDe 

No  one  committee  was  busier  or  had  a  more  comprehensive  work 
on  hand  those  busy  weeks  preceding  the  Celebration  than  the  Committee 
on  x^arade,  of  which  Richard  W.  Irwin  was  chairman.     The  committee 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  69 

was  no  sooner  appointed  than  its  work  was  practically  begun,  as  Mr. 
Irwin's  methodical  mind  at  once  took  in  hand  the  details  which  he  and 
his  aids  later  carried  out.  Correspondence  was  opened  for  the  purpose 
of  obtaining  suggestions,  and  the  aid  of  the  most  experienced  men  in 
the  city  was  solicited  and  secured.  Mr.  Irwin  practically  abandoned 
his  law  business,  and  for  six  weeks  gave  his  entire  time  to  plans  for  that 
great  spectacular  feature  of  the  Celebration,  the  parade.  As  it  became 
necessary  to  enlist  the  co-operation  of  the  general  public,  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  the  necessary  material  for  trimming  floats  and  carriages, 
energetic  and  persistent  work  had  to  be  done  to  rouse  the  people,  but 
once  they  understood  what  was  wanted  they  came  out  in  as  large  num- 
bers as  could  be  taken  care  of  in  the  hall  provided  for  the  purpose, 
where  were  ultimately  prepared  all  the  decorations  needed  for  carriages. 
Chairman  Irwin  found  all  the  helpers  he  needed  when  he  went  to  the 
pubHc  schools  and  told  the  children  what  was  wanted.  He  had  to 
tell  his  story  at  only  one  of  the  schools,  and  the  next  day  Dewey's  Hall, 
used  for  the  purpose,  was  filled,  and  at  one  time  there  were  about  150 
persons,  old  and  young,  preparing  the  paper  flowers  needed.  These 
flowers  of  tissue  paper  were  made  under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  Charles 
E.  Lyons  of  Greenfield.  From  ten  to  fifteen  minutes  were  rec^uired  to 
make  some  of  the  more  elaborate  flowers,  but  most  of  them  were  made 
rapidly.  These  paper  flowers  simulated  mostly  white,  yellow  and  red 
roses,  red  and  yellow  California  poppies,  chrysanthemums  of  all  colors 
and  the  white  syringa.  It  is  estimated  that  over  25,000  of  these  were 
furnished  for  carriage  trimming,  and  those  who  participated  in  the  work 
felt  well  repaid  for  the  time  spent,  in  the  experience  gained  for  possible 
future  use. 

It  was  no  small  enterprise  to  secure  the  336  horses  which  appeared 
in  the  parade,  and  the  committee  were  obHged  to  send  to  Springfield, 
Holyoke,  Amherst  and  several  other  places  for  the  horses  required,  and 
then  there  was  not  an  animal  left  in  the  local  stables  that  could  have 
been  utilized.  The  committee  had  a  long  hunt  for  a  goat  needed  on 
one  of  the  floats,  and  it  was  finally  secured. 

Co-operating  with  Mr.  Irwin,  in  preparations  for  and  carrying  out 
this  part  of  the  Celebration,  were  the  following,  including  his  aids: 
George  S.  Whitbeck,  Edward  P.  Hall,  Charles  N.  Fitts,  Wilham  C. 
Pomeroy,  John  J.  Raleigh,  Eugene  E.  Davis,  William  A.  Stevenson, 
Victor  Rocheleau,  William  A.  Clark,  Robert  B.  Weir,  William  Grant, 


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Hubbard  M.  Abbott,  William  A.  Bailey,  David  W.  C.  Scates,  John  E. 
Bates,  James  W.  Reid,  George  R.  Spear,  Frank  E.  Davis,  Robert  H. 
Clapp,  S.  William  Clark,  William  H.  Smith,  Thomas  J.  Hammond, 
Edward  T.  Foley,  Charles  E.  Herrick,  Frederick  G.  Jager,  John  McCool, 
Clayton  E.  Davis,  Charles  S.  Pratt,  Jr.  The  work  of  Mr.  Irwin  and  his 
committee  is  best  described  in  the  chapter  devoted  to  the  parade. 

^be  Iprc6i3  Committee 

The  Press  Committee,  while  not  so  conspicuous  in  its  work  as  some 
of  the  other  committees,  nevertheless  rendered  valuable  and  efficient 
service  and  contributed  its  share  in  making  the  Celebration  a  great 
success.  The  committee  was  composed  of  James  H.  Huntington  of 
the  Daily  Gazette,  Chairman;  Homer  C.  Chapin  of  the  Daily  Herald, 
secretary;  John  L.  Best  of  the  Daily  Gazette,  Charles  W.  Pierce  of  the 
Daily  Herald,  Albert  H.  Carpenter  of  the  Springfield  Repuhlieau ,  and 
Charles  G.  Fairman  of  the  Springfield  Union. 

The  first  work  done  by  the  committee  was  the  sending  out  of  printed 
matter  to  all  the  leading  papers  in  New  England  and  to  many  of  the 
papers  in  other  ];arts  of  the  country,  which  gave  the  history  of  the 
town,  from  the  first  day  of  the  settlement;  described  the  city  fully,  in 
its  advantages  as  an  educational  center,  its  industrial  interests  and 
attractiveness  as  a  place  of  residence.  The  program  of  the  three  days' 
exercises  was  also  given.  In  this  respect  the  committee  performed  the 
dutv  of  a  Committee  of  Publicity,  for  every  two  weeks  during  the  two 
months  preceding  the  Celebration,  this  printed  matter  of  general  interest 
was  sent  out  by  mail.  During  the  three  days  of  the  Celebration,  the 
committee  had  its  headquarters  in  the  Metcalf  block,  at  the  entrance 
to  Crafts  avenue,  nearly  opposite  the  City  Hall.  Stenographers  and 
typewriters  were  kept  busy  in  preparing  duplicate  copies  of  all  the 
speeches  that  were  made  and  of  all  the  events  that  occurred,  and  the 
visiting  newspaper  men  were  supplied  with  copies.  Badges,  suitably 
inscribed,  were  provided  for  the  newspaper  men.  The  emblem  on  the 
badges  was  a  squirrel,  with  the  legend,  "The  First  Settler." 

Among  the  visiting  editors  and  representatives  of  newspapers  were 
Frederick  W.  Main,  assistant  city  editor  of  the  Springfield  Repnblieau; 
Albert  P.  Langtry,  managing  editor  of  the  Springfield  Union;  Walter 
S.  Carson  of  Greenfield,  representative  of  the  Springfield  Union  and 
the  Boston  (jlobe;   Herbert  C.  Parsons,  editor  of  the  (ireenfield  Recorder, 


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William  G.  Dwight,  editor  of  the  Holyoke  Transcript;  Vernon  E. 
Hastings  of  the  Holyoke  Telegram;  George  L.  Munn,  editor  of  the  East- 
ham  ptoii  Neius;  John  Leitch,  editor  of  the  Easthamptoii  Enterprise; 
Edward  W.  Carpenter  and  Charles  F.  Morehouse,  editors  of  the  Amherst 
Record;  Edward  A.  Capron,  editor  of  the  Ware  River  A'Civs;  Lyman  N. 
Clark,  editor  of  the  Westfield  Times;  Herbert  E.  Riley,  representative  of 
the  Boston  Herald  and  the  New  ]'ork  Tribune;  Ralph  L.  Baldwin, 
representative  of  the  Nezv  York  Sun.  Other  Boston  and  New  York 
papers  w^ere  represented  and  also  a  number  of  papers  in  Hartford  and 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

Committee  on  Speakers 

The  Committee  on  Speakers  first  met  about  three  weeks  before  the 
Celebration,  and  organized  with  Judge  William  G.  Bassett  as  chairman 
and  John  C.  Mangan  as  secretary.  Numerous  letters  of  inquiry  were 
at  once  sent  out,  with  the  view  in  every  case  of  obtaining  the  best  speak- 
ers from  the  various  interests  considered  desirable  to  have  represented 
at  the  Celebration. 

The  list  of  speakers  whom  it  w^as  deemed  desirable  to  have  present 
included  such  men  as  Chauncey  M.  Depew,  John  Proctor  Clark  of  New 
York,  ex-President  Rev.  Timothy  Dwight  of  Yale  College,  and  President 
Charles  W.  Eliot  of  Harvard  College.  Mr.  Depew  was  invited  because 
he  lived  in  Peekskill,  where  the  monument  to  General  Seth  Pomeroy 
was  erected ;  ex-President  Dwight  of  Yale  College  was  included  as  a 
descendant  of  Jonathan  Edwards;  President  Eliot,  as  president  of  the 
college  in  which  the  most  eminent  college  men  of  Northampton  were 
educated;  and  Mr.  Clark,  as  a  noted  orator  and  the  most  distinguished 
Northampton  man  in  New  York.  Unfortunately,  three  of  these  men 
had  other  engagements  and  President  Dwight 's  ill  health  would  not 
permit  him  to  appear.  There  were  some  criticisms  afterwards  because 
the  committee  did  not  secure  local  speakers  for  the  tent  exercises,  but 
the  committee  desired  to  obtain  the  best  outside  talent,  because,  as  one 
of  them  expressed  it,  "we  can  hear  our  local  speakers  365  days  in  the 
year." 

Committee  on  ©amee  anD  Sporte 

The  Committee  on  Games  and  Sports  had  a  thornv  time  of  it  for 
awhile,  arranging  for  their  part  of  the  program.  They  were  hampered 
for  funds,  and  there  was  a  difference  of  opinion  as  to  just  what  would 
be  the  most  popular  form  of  amusement. 


72  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

George  P.  O'Donnell,  first  chairman  of  tliis  committee,  felt  obliged 
to  resign  on  account  of  a  personal  interest  in  the  local  baseball  team, 
which  was  scheduled  for  a  part  in  the  third  day's  sports,  and  John  T. 
Keating  took  his  place,  and  gave  his  entire  time  to  the  work.  The  com- 
mittee finally  decided  upon  a  free  baseball  game  and  fireworks  the  last 
day  of  the  Celebration,  and  the  admirable  manner  in  which  they  carried 
out  this  part  of  the  public  entertainment  is  referred  to  in  another  place. 
There  were  strong  objections  by  many  to  the  use  of  the  fireworks  pro- 
posed for  the  close  of  the  Celebration,  and  the  fear  of  accidents  or  con- 
flagration was  not  allayed  until  the  committee  announced  that  this 
part  of  the  Celebration  would  be  held  on  the  driving  park. 

TLbc  'mov\i  of  ©tber  Committees 

The  work  of  the  Committees  on  Decorations  and  Illuminations  is 
described  elsewhere,  under  separate  chapters. 

Though  not  the  most  spectacular,  the  preparatory  and  finished 
work  of  the  Committee  on  Historical  Localities  and  that  on  Historical 
Collections  was  the  most  important  of  any,  in  the  truest  sense  of  the 
word,  for  theirs  was  the  basis  of  the  Celebration.  This  preparatory  and 
completed  work  is  best  described  in  subsequent  pages,  by  Henry  S. 
Gere  and  Thomas  M.  Shepherd,  the  -fortunately  chosen  chairmen  of 
these  respective  committees. 

The  Tent  and  Banquet  Committees  had  about  the  most  dithcult 
problems  to  handle,  because  they  had  to  "cut  according  to  the  cloth," 
and  no  one  knew  just  how  much  was  wanted.  There  was  no  place  in 
the  center  of  the  city  which  would  accommodate  the  large  circus  tent 
first  talked  of,  and  the  trustees  of  the  Forbes  Library  finally  offering  the 
rear  of  their  lot,  a  tent  had  to  be  erected  there  to  fit  the  lot.  This  could 
accommodate  only  about  2,500  people,  but  when  it  was  used,  a  larger 
crowd  always  gathered  outside,  and  heard  much  that  was  going  on. 
The  Banquet  Committee's  task  of  preparation  was  difficult,  because  it 
was  not  for  some  time  decided  what  the  people  wanted  in  the  way  of 
refreshment  in  a  formal  way.  It  was  finally  concluded  that  the  simplest 
way  was  the  best,  and  the  course  taken  and  described  further  on,  was 
generally  approved. 

A  word  should  be  said  for  the  Committee  on  the  Anniversary  Ex- 
ercises in  the  Academy  of  Music,  Monday.  President  Seelye  was  chair- 
man of  this  committee  and  ex-Mayor  Henry  P.  Field  secretary,  and  the 


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other  members  were  George  W.  Cable,  Judge  William  P.  Strickland  and 
ex-Mavor  John  B.  O'Donnell.  The  committee  made  an  excellent  choice 
for  an  orator,  in  selecting  ex-Gov.  John  D.  Long,  while  two  others  were 
considered — John  Hay,  secretary  of  state,  and  William  H.  Moody,  sec- 
retary of  the  navy,  but  Mr.  Long  was  finally  chosen  because  of  his  special 
interest  in  Northampton.  The  selection  of  the  Academy  of  Music  for  the 
opening  exercises  proved  an  excellent  one,  although  the  tent  was  talked 
of.  As  already  noticed,  there  was  no  overcrowding  at  the  Academy 
and  few  were  obliged  to  stand.  The  tickets  for  box  seats  were  distrib- 
uted to  Governor  Bates,  Frank  Lyman,  whose  father  presented  the 
Academy;  Mayor  Hallett,  President  Seelye,  and  Oscar  Edwards,  wdio 
provided  for  Governor  Long's  guests.  The  ladies  who  accompanied 
the  Governor's  party  were  also  assigned  boxes. 

Without  a  plentiful  supply  of  music,  the  Celebration  would  have 
been  incomplete,  and  the  Committee  on  Music,  Col.  Henr}-  L.  Williams, 
chairman,  made  the  most  of  the  funds  at  their  disposal,  furnishing  there- 
with the  excellent  concerts,  indoors  and  open-air,  and  provided,  besides, 
all  the  band  music  necessary  for  the  parade.  Visitors  from  other  cities 
expressed  their  surprise  at  the  local  musical  talent,  and  seemed  to  have 
been  ignorant  of  or  had  forgotten  about  Northampton's  ancient  and 
superior  musical  reputation. 

It  was  generally  conceded  that  the  Committee  on  Children's  Exer- 
cises furnished  a  most  useful  and  inspiring  part  of  the  entertainment, 
and  the  children  themselves  did  their  full  duty. 

The  most  economical  committee  was  that  on  Salutes.  It  did  its 
work  thoroughly  and  well,  and  expended  only  $i6  of  its  appropriation 
of  $ioo.  The  official  bell-ringing  and  salutes  were  given  only  on  Monday 
morning,  because  there  was  considerable  objection  offered  by  many  to 
their  repetition  the  next  day. 

Through  the  energetic  efforts  of  Thomas  A.  Orcutt  and  Louis  H. 
Warner  of  the  Transportation  Committee,  reduced  rates  were  secured 
on  the  different  railroads  entering  the  city,  and  their  early  action  con- 
tributed largelv  to  swelling  the  crowd  of  out-of-town  visitors. 

Through  the  influence  of  Councilor  Richard  W^.  Irwin,  the  kind 
offices  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  Company  were  extended  to  the 
Transportation  Committee,  in  a  most  signal  way,  in  furnishing  free 
transportation  for  the  state  troops  from  Springfield,  who  appeared  in 
the  parade  of  Tuesday. 


74  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL   CELEBRATION 

Where  all  the  committees  did  so  well  in  the  work  of  preparation, 
it  is  difficult  to  particularize,  but  the  perfect  results  which  followed  are 
sufficient  evidence  that  the  preparations  on  the  part  of  all  were  most 
creditable  to  all. 

The  chairmen  of  committees  were  all  workers,  and  chosen  with 
rare  skill  and  discretion  for  their  tasks.  Here  the  sub-committee 
which  reported  the  list  showed  an  evenness  of  judgment  that  was  indeed 
remarkable,  for  out  of  the  long  list  of  working  members  every  one  of 
them  was  proven  fitted  for  his  task.  The  managers  of  the  Tri-cen- 
tenary  Celebration,  in  1954,  will  be  fortunate  indeed  if  they  are  as  wise 
in  the  construction  of  their  committees. 

His  Honor  the  Mayor,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  and  Finance 
Committee,  did  not  say  much, — probably,  and  properly,  considering 
his  position  that  of  a  mere  governor,  or  executive,  to  carry  out  the  wishes 
of  the  people — but  his  constant  presence  at  committee  meetings  was 
both  an  encouragement  and  inspiration  to  the  workers,  and  all  felt 
that  he  was  a  dignified  and  worthy  chief  representative  of  the  city  in 
its  quarter-millennial  year. 

To  City  Clerk  Clapp,  more  than  any  other  one  man,  is  due  the 
success  of  the  Celebration,  and  the  general  thoroughness  of  the  committee 
work  already  described.  He  was  consulted  by  everybody,  was  visited 
frequently  by  the  chairmen  of  all  committees,  and  always  had  a  ready 
answer  or  suggestion.  If  others  faltered  or  hesitated,  or  seemed  dis- 
couraged by  the  inevitable  obstacles  which  always  accompany  such 
undertakings,  he  was  not  at  all  affected,  never  showed  the  shghtest 
discouragement,  and  his  tact  and  good  judgment  were  shown  on  more 
than  one  occasion,  when  that  alone  saved  the  day. 

©tber  preparations 

Not  the  least  important  of  the  preparations  was  the  location  of 
sanitaries  and  the  erection  of  drinking  fountains  at  suitable  places  about 
the  city.  The  locations  were  made  with  excellent  judgment  and,  sub- 
sequent events  showed,  with  warm  poi)ular  approval. 

Credit  is  due  William  Grant  and  John  E.  Bates  respectively,  for 
furnishing  the  ice  and  water  barrels.  In  connection  with  the  work  done 
in  the  line  of  sanitation  and  for  public  comfort,  the  preparations  made 
by  the  Home  Culture  Clubs  and  carried  out,  were  most  appreciated 
and  noteworthy,  and  are  referred  to  elsewhere. 


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75 


With  the  co-operation  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Dickinson  Hospital 
and  Dr.  Edward  W.  Brown,  the  city  physician,  it  was  arranged  so  that 
on  the  morning  of  the  parade  the  ambulance  should  be  kept  in  readiness 
for  immediate  service,  with  a  physician  in  attendance.  It  was  planned 
also  to  have  physicians  accessible  at  various  points  on  the  line  of  the 
anniversary  parade,  and  a  full  list  of  them  was  in  possession  of  all  the 
officers  on  the  streets.  It  was  hoped  in  this  wav  to  minimize  the  results 
of  any  possible  accident  which  might  occur  owing  to  the  presence  of  the 
large  crowd  expected  in  the  citv  on  the  day  of  the  parade. 


PROCLAMATION    BY   THE    MAYOR 


Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
Mayor's  Office,  City  Hall, 
Northampton,  May  31,  A    D.  1904. 
To  Our  Citizens,  Greetiiig: 

Whereas,  our  City  Council  has,  in  the  exercise  of  a  power  duly 
granted  unto  it  by  our  General  Court,  provided  for  a  Celebration  of  the 
250th  Anniversary  of  our  settlement  as  a  municipality,  and  a  committee 
thereto  duly  authorized  has  designated  Sunday,  Monday  and  Tuesday, 
June  5th,  6th  and  7th  next,  as  the  time  for  such  Celebration.  Now, 
therefore. 

Let  us  each  and  all  join  heartily  in  the  ceremonies  of  this  notable 
occasion,  for  the  success  thereof  depends  upon  our  united  efforts. 

Let  us  with  pride  recall  the  intelligent  bravery  of  those  who  laid 
the  strong  foundations  of  our  ancient  and  enduring  city,  and  grate- 
fully recount  their  brave  deeds,  their  voluntary  privations  and  hardships 
in  freedom's  cause,  for  the  results  of  their  compelling  efforts  are  the 
rich  blessings  we  now  enjoy. 

Let  us  tarry  for  the  brief  season  set  apart  for  these  ceremonies  and 
recount  the  trials  and  dangers  and  reverentially  mention  the  names  of 
those  who  have  placed  their  names  high  upon  the  honor  roll  of  North- 
ampton's proud  history. 

Let  us,  in  humble  imitation  of  their  great  virtues,  pause  for  the 
time  and  dedicate  ourselves  to  the  performance  of  those  duties  of  citi- 
zenship so  essential  to  the  preservation  of  the  institutions  they  bestowed 
upon  us. 

To  this  end  I  recommend  that  all  our  people  assemble  in  their 
houses  of  worship  upon  the  Sabbath  day  of  June  5th  next,  and  there 
offer  their  devotions  of  thanksgiving  and  praise  for  the  very  many  bless- 
ings which  have  been  vouchsafed  unto  us  by  the  Ruler  of  the  Universe 
during  our  long  and  uninterrupted  continuance  as  a  municipality. 

And  further,  that  all  our  people  may  be  permitted  to  freely  give 
themselves  to  the  entertainment  of  our  home-coming  sons  and  daughters, 
our  distinguished  guests  and  the  strangers  who  may  be  "within  our 
gates,"  and  to  otherwise  join  in  the  festivities  of  the  occasion,  I  recom- 
mend that,  in  so  far  as  the  same  mav  be  conveniently  practicable,  all 
business  be  suspended ;  that  all  our  stores,  shops  and  factories  be  closed 
upon  the  day  of  the  civic,  commercial  and  military  parade,  being  June 
7th  next. 

God  save  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  and  our  beloved 
City  of  Northampton. 

Henry  C.  Hallett,  Mayor. 


CHIEP^   MARSHAL'S   (.ENERAL   ORDER,   No.    i 

The  following  General  ( )r(ler,  No.  i,  was  issued  l)y  Chief  Marshal 
Jairus  E.  Clark,  Wednesday,  June  i : 

HEADyUARTERS 

Chief  Marshal  of  the  250TH  Axninersary  Parade 
General  Order,  No.  1. 

The  civic  and  military  parade  of  the  250th  Anniversary  Celebration 
will  occur  June  7th.  The  line  will  be  formed  in  Ward  Three  and  will 
consist  of  at  least  six  divisions.     The  line  will  be  made  up  as  follows: 

Advance  guard  of  sixteen  deputy  sheriffs,  mounted.  The  following 
assignments  have  been  made:  To  be  chief  of  staff,  Richard  W.  Irwin; 
marshal  of  the  first  division,  Col.  Henry  L.  Williams;  second  division, 
Capt.  Edward  P.  Hall;  third  division,  detail  not  yet  made;  fourth  division, 
John  J.  Raleigh;  fifth  division,  chief  of  fire  clepartment,  Frederick  E. 
Chase;  sixth  division,  Frederick  G.  Jager. 

The  first  division  will  consist  of  the  3d  battalion,  Second  Regiment 
of  Infantry,  M.  V.  M.,  Co.  H,  Naval  Battalion  of  Springfield;  William 
L.  Baker  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  Spanish  War  Veterans,  Sons  of  Veterans,  the 
Governor  and  Staff  and  his  Council  and  other  distinguished  guests, 
and  decorated  private  carriages. 

Second  Division  —  Civic  societies  and  other  floats. 

Third  Division  —  Floats  and  carriages  from  the  towns  of  Easthamp- 
ton,  Southampton  and  Westhampton,  and  other  out-of-town  vehicles. 

Fourth  Division  —  Historical  floats,  coaches,  etc.,  representing  the 
manufacturing  industries  of  the  city. 

Fifth  Division — Northampton  fire  department. 

Sixth  Division  —  Automobiles. 

The  automobile  division  will  not  appear  in  such  a  way  as  to  be  a 
source  of  danger  by  frightening  horses,  as  it  will  take  no  part  in  the 
countermarch.  It  will  leave  the  main  line  at  Crescent  street  and  join 
the  left  of  the  line  when  it  passes  the  watering  trough  in  North  Elm 
street. 

The  line  of  march  is  that  published  by  the  Parade  Committee. 

The  chiefs  of  divisions  will  appoint  their  own  aids. 

The  head  of  each  division  will  be  provided  with  martial  music. 

All  those  who  are  to  join  in  the  line  of  march  in  any  way  whatever 
will  at  once  notify  Capt.  Richard  W.  Irwin,  chairman  of  the  Parade 
Committee,  not  later  than  Saturday  next,  stating  what  their  contribu- 
tions will  be,  whether  in  floats,  coaches,  carriages,  marching  men  or 
otherwise.  It  is  most  essential  that  this  should  be  done,  that  the  line 
may  be  properly  arranged  and  places  for  the  formation  of  the  special 
division  assigned. 

To  guard  against  injury  or  accident  it  is  recommended  that  any 
vehicle  clrawn  bv  more  than  two  horses  shall  have  footmen  at  the  head 


78  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

of  the  leading  horses,  said  footmen  to  be  dressed  in  some  sort  of  uniform 
or  distinguishing  dress. 

No  float  or  coach  or  other  vehicle  shall  be  higher  than  twelve  feet 
six  inches  from  the  ground.  This  is  to  prevent  accidents  from  bridges 
and  trolley  wires. 

All  who  are  to  participate  in  the  parade  are  ordered  to  report  at  the 
junction  of  Hawley  and  Bridge  streets,  near  the  underpass  on  Main 
street,  at  9  o'clock,  on  Tuesday,  June  7th,  and  any  one  not  so  reporting 
must  form  in  the  rear  of  the  division  they  are  assigned  to  when  they 
report. 

Bv  order  of 

Jairus  E.  Clark,  iliicf  Alarshal. 
Bv  Chief  of  Staff,  Richard  W.  Irwin. 


CHIEF     MARSHAL'S    GENERAL    ORDER,    No.    2 

The  following  General  Order,  concerning  the  preparations  and 
make-up  of  the  parade,  were  issued  by  Chief  Marshal  Jairus  E.  Clark, 
Saturday  afternoon,  June  4: 

General  Orders,  No.  2. 
Headquarters  of  the  Chief  Marshal, 

June  4,  1904. 

All  who  are  to  participate  in  the  parade  will  report  to  the  Marshal 
of  the  division  to  which  they  are  assigned,  as  hereinafter  indicated, 
at  9  o'clock  in  the  morning  on  Tuesday  next.  It  will  require  at  least 
one  hour  to  arrange  the  line ;  therefore  it  is  imperatively  necessary  that 
all  shall  report  promptly,  as  the  parade  will  begin  at  10  o'clock  sharp, 
at  which  time  a  signal  will  be  fired  by  the  naval  battalion  from  Spring- 
field. 

Aids  will  be  stationed  at  the  junction  of  Hawley,  Bridge  and  Market 
streets  to  direct  parties  to  the  divisions  to  which  they  have  been  assigned. 

The  headquarters  of  the  Chief  Marshal  will  be  at  the  junction  of 
Bridge  street  and  Pomeroy  Terrace.  The  heads  of  divisions  will  be  as 
follows: 

Headquarters  of  First  Division  in  front  of  the  residence  of  John  L. 
Draper  on  Bridge  street;  Col.  Henry  L.  Williams,  marshal. 

Headquarters  of  Second  Division  will  be  at  the  junction  of  Pom- 
eroy Terrace  and  Bridge  street;  Capt.  Edward  P.  Hall,  marshal. 

Headquarters  of  the  Third  Division  will  be  at  the  junction  of  Pine 
and  Bridge  streets;  Edward  L.  Shaw,  marshal. 


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Headquarters  of  the  Fourth  Division  will  be  at  the  corner  of  Bridge 
and  Orchard  streets;  John  J.  Raleigh,  marshal. 

Headquarters  of  the  Fifth  Division  will  be  at  the  junction  of  Han- 
cock and  Hawley  streets;  Frederick  E.  Chase,  chief  of  fire  department, 
marshal. 

Headquarters  of  the  Sixth  Division  (automobiles)  will  be  at  the 
junction  of  lower  Pleasant  and  Holyoke  streets;  Frederick  G.  Jager, 
marvshal. 

I  again  impress  upon  all  who  are  to  join  in  the  parade  the  necessity 
of  extreme  caution  in  the  management  of  their  vehicles,  to  the  end  that 
there  may  be  no  accident  or  injury  to  any  one. 

All  who  are  to  participate  in  the  line  of  march  will  start  from  the 
place  where  the  line  is  formed,  as  it  will  be  impossible  to  allow  them 
conveniently  and  safelv  to  join  at  other  points. 

I  ask  the  good-natured  co-operation  of  all  participating  in  the 
parade,  that  it  may  be  that  grand  success  that  ought  to  crown  our 
efforts  in  this  matter. 

The  colors  of  the  Chief  Marshal  and  StafT  will  be  red,  of  the  Second 
Division,  white;  Third  Division,  blue;  Fourth  Division,  yellow;  Fifth 
Division,  green,  and  Sixth  Division,  purple. 

Jairus  E.  Clark,  Chief  Marshal. 

By  Richard  W.  Irwin,  Chief  of  Staff. 


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DECORATIONS    AND    ILLUMINATIONS 

WITH  the  practical  completion  of  most  of  the  committee  work, 
the  proclamation  of  the  Mayor,  and  the  general  orders  of  the 
Chief  Marshal,  this  record  brings  the  reader  to  a  relation  of 
the  completed  results,  so  far  as  decorations  and  illuminations  were  con- 
cerned, vSaturday  night,  June  4,  and  a  description  of  these  features 
recpires  separate  chapters. 

THE    DECORATIONS 

The  Committee  on  Decorations  contracted  with  the  American 
Decorating  Company  of  South  Framingham  to  care  for  the  public  build- 
ings and  carry  out  the  scheme  for  arraying  Main  street,  and  this  concern 
did  its  w^ork  well.  Warren  M.  King,  the  chairman  of  the  committee, 
gave  this  subject  almost  his  entire  time  during  the  last  two  weeks  pre- 
ceding the  Celebration,  visited  Hartford  and  other  places  where  cele- 
brations were  then  or  recently  had  been  in  progress,  and  returned  home 
determined  to  have  the  best.  Mr.  King  found  that  the  decorations  in 
some  places  were  torn,  dingy  and  worn  out  for  the  most  part,  and  one  of 
the  conditions  of  the  contract  with  the  American  Decorating  Companv 
was  that  all  the  material  used  on  Main  street  should  be  bran  new. 
The  result  was  that  when  the  work  was  done,  the  effect  was  much  supe- 
rior to  the  ordinary  run  of  similar  decorative  work  in  the  large  cities. 

The  scheme  for  Main  street,  favored  by  the  late  Mr.  Copeland,  and 
for  which  he  had  a  striking  design  or  sketch  prepared,  months  before 
his  death,  contemplated  making  Main  street  a  veritable  bower  of  flags 
and  bunting,  from  the  underpass  to  City  Hall,  and  his  plan  was  car- 
ried farther  by  Mr.  King  and  his  committee,  with  the  contractors,  in 
extending  the  scheme  to  the  junction  of  Elm  and  West  streets.  Their 
plan  of  decoration  brought  into  use  the  twenty-two  trolley  poles  on  each 
side  of  the  street — forty-four  in  all.  These  were  used  to  support  three 
separate  pieces  of  decoration;  first,  a  "pull"  of  the  national  colors,  in 
stripes,  about  eight  feet  long,  caught  up  and  draped  in  a  curtain  effect; 
next  to  that  a  quarter-circle  or  fan-shaped  combination  of  the  national 
colors,  and  beyond  that  the  national  flag.  These  pieces  of  decoration 
were  suspended  from  a  pole  at  right  angles  with  the  trolley  pole  and 
hung  sufficiently  high  (about  eight  feet)  above  the  ground  to  be  out  of 
reach  of  mischievous  boys  or  rowdies;  as  showm  in  the  illustration  of 
the  scene  near  the  underpass  on  Main  street. 


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Forbes     Library 


A  gay  overhead  show  was  made  the  entire  length  of  the  street  by 
stretching  across,  from  curb  to  curb,  attached  to  the  roofs  of  buildings, 
and  about  sixtv  feet  apart,  a  collection  of  signal  flags,  and  flags  of  all 
nations,  with  the  American  flag  in  the  center  of  each  line.  There  were 
thirty  of  these  streamers,  and  all  the  material  used  being  bright^and 
new,  this  contributed  greatly  to  the  success  of  the  general  scheme  of 
Main  street  decoration,  which  was  so  much  admired  by  visitors. 

When  the  sun  set  Saturday  night  every  business  block  on  Main 
street  was  decorated  with  flags  or  bunting,  and  the  effect  was  univer- 
sally conceded,  by  citizens  and  visitors  alike,  to  be  the  most  elegant  and 
sumptuous  ever  seen  in  the  same  area  of  space  anywhere ;  for  it  was  not 
only  completely  comprehensive,  but  the  worn,  dingy  effect  so  noticeable 
in  the  average  schemes  of  street  decoration  was  entirely  lacking,  and 
the  whole  display  was  one  of  sparkling  brightness  and  beautv. 

This  work  was  completed  before  the  illuminations  of  the  evening, 
described  elsewhere,  and  visitors  found  plenty  to  admire  in  the  decora- 
tions, before  the  ten  thousand  lamps  of  the  night  sent  out  their  brilliant 
glow.  The  Court  of  Honor  was  a  "thing  of  beauty"  in  the  daytime  as 
well  as  by  night,  and  was  at  all  times  the  cynosure  of  all  eyes.  This 
structure  was  erected  bv  Simons  &  Fox  of  Hartford,  and  was  niainlv  a 


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combination  of  twelve  white  pillais,  tin  of  which  were  eighteen  feet 
high  and  two  twenty  feet  high,  arranged  nearly  in  a  semi -circle  and 
lining  the  walks  approaching -the  Memorial  Hall,  in  front  of  which 
structure  it  was  appropriately  placed.  Strings  of  laurel  and  wiring  for 
lamps  extended  from  pillar  to  pillar  and  from  different  parts  of  the 
ssmi-circle  to  the  roof  of  the  building.  In  front,  near  the  sidewalk  on 
Main  street,  stood  an  arch,  to  be  illuminated,  with  the  lettering,  "  1654  — 
Northampton — 1904." 

The  erection  of  a  Court  of  Honor  was  the  result  of  a  compromise 
over  a  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the  advisability  of  erecting  an  arch  on 
Main  street.     An  arch  has  always  been  considered  the  proper  thing  on 

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see  what  was  being  done  there.  Chairman  King  was  accompanied  to 
Hartford  by  John  T.  Dewey  and  Oscar  F.  Ely  of  his  committee  and 
Chairman  Heffernan  of  the  Committee  on  llluniinations,  and  the  result 
was  the  happy  selection  of  a  Court  of  Honor  as  the  central  feature  of 
decoration,  instead  of  an  arch.  From  this  time  on  the  two  commit- 
tees, on  decorations  and  illuminations,  worked  in  unison  and  harmony, 
thus  contributing  to  the  perfect  results  that  followed. 

The  City  Hall  front,  next  to  the  Court  of  Honor,  was  a  bower  of 
flags  and  bunting,  flags  were  caught  up  overhead  in  the  porch,  under  the 
great  balcony,  and  the  mass  of  color  ran  along  all  the  lines  of  the  build- 
ing to  the  Gothic  turrets  at  the  top.  The  word  "Welcome"  and  the 
city  seal  were  the  only  diversions  in  the  decorative  scheme.  The  hand- 
some showing  of  this  seal,  in  the  City  Hall  decorations,  attracted  much 
attention,  as  few^  of  the  visitors  and  many  of  the  citizens  had  ever  seen 
it  in  any  form.  This  seal  presents  considerable  detail  of  design,  and  is 
not  altogether  understood.  It  was  designed  by  a  Northampton  boy, 
Thomas  M.  Shepherd,  while  a  young  man,  in  1884.  The  design  consists 
of  a  circle  of  mulberry  leaves,  significant  of  the  silk  industry,  with  the 
word  "Northampton"  at  the  top,  two  female  figures  and  a  landscape 
of  local  scenery  including  the  "Old  Church,"  Smith  College  tower,  silk 
mills  and  the  mountains,  with  the  motto,  "Caritas,  Justitia,  Educatio." 
One  of  the  female  figures  represents  the  Goddess  of  Knowledge,  sur- 
rounded with  the  symbols  of  learning,  descending  from  her  well-known 
eminence,  to  thank  Charity  for  her  many  liberal  bequests.  Charity 
replies  that  she  is  inspired  by  a  higher  law,  of  Generosity,  Justice  and 
Good  Will.  The  agricultural  interests  are  shown  by  a  view  of  the 
meadows  and  farming  implements. 

Smith  College  buildings  were  decorated  in  an  unique  and  original 
way,  the  conventional  colors  and  arrangement  being  wholly  discarded, 
this  work  being  properly  delegated  to  Miss  Mary  R.  Williams  of 
the  college  art  department.  Her  conception  of  taste  in  this  matter 
was  generally  approved  by  those  who  recognize  the  fitness  of  things. 
The  Chemistry  building  was  decorated  with  bands  of  white  and  red 
cloth,  and  the  Hillyer  Art  building  and  the  President's  house  were 
festooned  in  the  empire  style,  with  white  cheesecloth,  caught  up  with 
rosettes  of  magenta  colored  cloth  and  wreaths  of  laurel.  This  same 
combination  was  carried  out  on  the  front  of  the  Administration  build- 
ing, the  festooning  there,  of  course,  being  more  extensive  in   length, 


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and  here,  besides  the  national 
flag,  waved  the  flags  of  all 
the  classes,  while  the  national 
flag  was  also  draped  over  the 
front  entrance. 

Forbes  Library,  the  High 
School  building,  Academy  of 
Music,  and  Clarke  Library 
were  all  festooned  with  the 
national  colors,  and  embel- 
hshed  with  the  difterent  de- 
signs intended  for  illumi- 
nation. 

The  committee's  plan 
embraced  the  decoration  of 
the  South  street  bridge  and 
the  Main  street  underpass, 
all  the  fire  engine  houses 
and  school-houses  of  the  citv, 
including  Florence,  Leeds 
and  Bay  State  ;  the  reviewing 
stand,  which  was  erected  on 
Main  street,  nearly  in  front 
of  French's  store,  and  the 
anniversary  tent.  The  Burn- 
ham-Capen  school  buildings 
and  Home  Culture  Clubs 
house  were  tastefully  deco- 
rated bv  the  management. 


The  county  officials  were  not  behindhand  in  recognizing  the  im- 
portance of  the  occasion,  for  they  directed  the  decoration  of  the  court- 
house and  assented  to  the  illumination  of  the  court-house  fountain, 
elsewhere  described. 

The  exterior  of  Odd  Fellows  hall,  in  Dewey's  block,  was  covered 
with  the  emblems  of  the  order,  the  three  links,  shepherd's  crook,  bundle 
of  sticks,  emblematic  of  the  power  of  union  and  co-operation;  a  heart 
in  the  hand,  a  crown,  sword,  and  representation  of  Rebekah  at  the  well. 


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The  armory  of  Company  I  was 
of  course  well  cared  for,  and  a  pic- 
ture of  the  battle  of  San  Juan 
Hill,  in  which  the  old  company 
had  a  part,  was  placed  over  the 
front  entrance. 

Close  b}^  is  the  old  Whitney 
homestead  and  site  of  the  home 
of  Jonathan  Edwards,  and  this 
was  decorated  by  direction  of  the 
heirs  of  the  Edwards  family,  who 
sent  funds  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee for  that  purpose.  Historic 
old  King  street,  as  a  whole,  was 
also  well  cared  for.  The  French 
church  parsonage,  formerly  the 
Erastus  Hopkins  place,  and  the  old 
Doctor  Fisk  place,  now  owned  by 
Joseph  L.  Fowler,  were  festooned 
with  bunting. 

Every  house  on  the  projected  hne  of  march,  on  Bridge  street,  was 
decorated;  all  on  Henshaw  avenue,  including  the  specially  fine  dis- 
plays of  Capt.  Richard  W.  Irwin  and  Charles  E.  Childs.  Every  house 
on  Elm  street  displayed  more  or  less  bunting,  and  the  decorations  on 
the  residence  of  J.  Howe  Demond  were  of  unusual  elaboration. 

Of  more  than  ordinary  interest  in  the  way  of  decoration  was  what 
was  done  in  this  line  for  two  of  the  older  and  more  historic  houses  of 
the  town — that  owned  and  occupied  by  Thomas  M.  Shepherd  and  built 
by  his  famous  ancestors,  as  also  the  old  Chauncey  E.  Parsons  house, 
fronting  the  Bridge  street  park. 

The  exteriors  of  the  churches  were  not  decorated,  the  nearest  ap- 
proach to  decoration  being  at  the  First  church,  where  two  American 
flags  were  crossed  and  intertwined  over  the  front  entrance. 

The  best  decorated  hotel  in  the  city  was  The  Hampton,  fol- 
lowed closely  by  the  Bay  State  House  and  City  Hotel.  The  Mansion 
House  was  not  at  this  time  in  commission  as  a  hotel,  but  the  owner  of 
the  block,  John  L.  Draper,  did  his  share  in  the  honors  of  the  occasion. 
The  Union  Station,  with  its  long  arcade,  was  sparingly  but  judiciously 
decorated,  considering  the  danger  from  locomotive  sparks. 


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and  boarding 
house  displayed 
attractive 
schemes  of  dec- 
oration, and  the 
Armour  and 
Handy  Beef 
Company  build- 
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mentioned  in 
the  foregoing 
paragraphs,  all 
places  were  dec- 
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illuminated,  as 
described  in  the 
article  following,  on  illuminations. 

At  Florence,  Lilly  Library  and  most  of  the  business  places,  the 
Florence  Hotel  and  Cottage  Hotel,  were  cared  for,  and  this  part  of  the 
city  showed  its  full  share  of  public  spirit  and  patriotism  when  the  hour 
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THE    ILLUMINATIONS 

The  improvements  of  electrical  invention  have  made  it  possible 
to  supplement  the  effect  of  decorations  on  buildings  and  streets  with 
some  very  striking  combinations  of  color  and  light,  and  this  was  first 
realized  in  this  city  when  the  Committee  on  Illuminations  had  com- 
pleted their  work  with  the  contractors,  Simons  &  Fox  of  Hartford. 
Chairman  James  W.  Heffernan  of  this  committee  had  given  two  months 
of  study  and  work  to  the  matter,  and,  confronted  at  first  with  a  problem 


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entirely  new  to  him,  he  yet  succeeded  in  grappHng  with  a  puzzhng  mass 
of  details  in  a  very  satisfactory  way,  the  local  electric  light  company 
aiding  in  the  technical  work  with  courtesy  and  promptitude  and  giving 
much  gratuitous  service.  The  light  was  first  turned  on  to  the  complete 
illumination  scheme  Saturday  night,  June  4,  and  the  effect  was  magnifi- 
cent. On  the  various  public  buildings  were  thousands  of  lamps  hanging 
on  long  stretches  of  wire,  in  festoons,  from  point  to  point,  on  the  cornices 
and  side  walls  of  the  different  structtires. 


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From  Smith  College  to  the  corner  of  Main  and  King  streets,  there 
was  a  continuous  blaze  of  light,  making  the  broad,  picturesque  Main 
street  almost  as  clear  as  by  day.  From  the  college  tower  blazed  several 
large  arc  lights,  which,  sometimes  hidden  by  light  foliage  and  anon 
brought  into  full  view  from  another  point  of  observation,  seemed  like 
a  group  of  newly  discovered  moons  in  the  heavens.  Forbes  Library 
was  a  mass  of  most  brilliant  corruscation  of  colored  lights,  its  situation, 
back  from  the  street,  lending  itself  admiraVjly  to  heighten  the  eft'ect. 


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Over  the  front  arch  of  the  stone  porch  shone  the  figures  "  i654-iqo4." 
From  one  side  of  tlie  building  to  the  other,  hnes  of  hght  extended  and 
the  large  bay  window  of  the  reference  room  was  outlined  in  light  from 
scores  of  lamps  festooned  from  the  eaves  of  the  roof  to  the  sills  of  the 
large  windows.  Next  was  the  High  School  building,  which  was  more 
simply  illuminated,  but  the  light-colored  brick  seemed  to  furnish  an 
additional  glow  to  the  light  scheme  The  mystic  "250"  years  of  the 
past  shone  in  figures  over  the  entrance,  and  lamps  in  a  continuous  line 
extended  along  the  Main  and  South  street  fronts. 

The  Academy  of  Music  was  very  effectively  illuminated  by  placing 
rows  of  colored  lights  in  the  panes  of  the  large  front  windows,  while  far 
above  these  the  terra  cotta  panel,  bearing  the  words,  "Academy  of 
Music,"  w^as  lighted  with  plain  lamps,  so  as  to  give  the  effect  of  foot- 
lights. On  the  front  lawn  was  a  powerful  reflecting  light,  which 
turned  a  brilliant  glow  upon  the  lower  part  of  the  building. 

From  this  point  the  blaze  lighted  one  on  to  the  beautiful  Court  of 
Honor,  in  front  of  the  Clarke  Library.  This  was  the  most  elaborate 
work  of  the  electrician's  art,  as  also  of  the  decorator's,  already  described. 
No  description,  however,  can  do  this  work  justice.  It  simply  stands 
out  in  the  memory  of  those  who  saw  it,  like  a  most  beautiful  fleeting 
vision.      The   chaste  white  fluted  pillars,  with  their  carved  Corinthian 


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capita],  were  capped  by  glowing  disks,  which  faced  the  interior  of  the 
court  and  the  street;  then  the  hght  of  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  incan- 
descent lamps  extended  in  graceful  curving  lines  from  pillar  to  pillar, 
and  from  the  wide  arch  at  the  front  of  the  court  to  the  building  in  the 
rear.  The  lights  in  the  festoons  and  long  lines  were  uncolored,  but 
those  which  surrounded  the  disks  were  many  colored.  Over  the 
entrance  to  the  library  was  the  crown  piece  of  illuminating  art,  the 
national  flag  picked  out  in  its  proper  colors  of  red,  white  and  blue,  the 
stars  and  strii)es  all  there  —  a  living  flag  of  light.     About  three  hundred 


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lamps  were  rec^uired  to  complete  this  piece  of  work.  On  one  side  of 
the  doorway  the  seal  of  the  United  States  was  surrounded  by  a  border 
of  lights  and  on  the  other  the  Massachusetts  coat  of  arms  was  lighted 
in  a  similar  manner.  Festoons  of  light  extended  from  the  sides  of  the 
building  to  the  very  apex  of  the  roof,  and  a  little  beyond,  to  the  left, 
could  be  seen  the  roof  of  the  office  building  of  the  local  gas  company 
outlined  in  lines  of  glowing  gas  jets. 

The  City   Hall  was  naturally  one  of  the  best  illuminated  public 
buildings,  and  standing,  as  it  does,  at  the  best  vantage  point  for  view 


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of  any  public  building  on  the  street,  it  could  be  seen  a  considerable  dis- 
tance, in  all  its  glory, —  such  a  splendor  as  it  will  probably  never  be 
clothed  in  again,  for  the  life  of  public  buildings  is  limited.  Over  the 
ancient  porch,  with  its  well-worn  steps,  the  word  "Welcome"  shone  out 
in  letters  of  brilliant  light.  Thirty  feet  or  more  above,  the  figures  on 
the  citv  seal  were  framed  in  other  lamps.  On  one  side  of  the  porch, 
on  an  oval  shield,  was  the  date  of  the  city's  incorporation,  "  1654,"  and 
on  the  other  side,  in  the  same  fashion,  the  anniversary  year,  "1904." 
Close  festoons  of  light  interlaced  the  front,  in  the  middle  and  on  the 
sides,  and  high  overhead,  against  the  darkened  night  sky,  gleamed 
curving  lines  of  various  colored  lamps,  extending  from  the  edge  of  the 
roof  and  the  quaint  old  turrets  to  the  top  of  the  flagstaff. 

One  of  the  most  popular  features  of  the  illumination  was  the  light- 
ing of  the  little  court  house  fountain.  This  simple  spout  of  water  was 
transformed  into  a  kaleidoscopic  display  of  light  and  color,  which  greatly 
captivated  the  eye.  An  upright  pole,  rising  from  the  pile  of  lettered 
stones  furnished  by  the  towns  of  the  county,  supported  wires  extending 
to  the  edge  of  the  basin,  and  from  these  wires  were  suspended,  at  short 
distances,  red,  green  and  white  globes.  Then  the  water,  thrown  from  the 
urn,  with  all  available  force,  fell  in  .heavy  showers  of  prismatic  light, 
and  seemed  to  sink,  in  a  pool  of  dazzling  brilliancy,  and  to  counterfeit, 
in  a  way,  a  shower  of  the  richest  gems  of  earth  and  meteors  of  the  sky. 

vSome  of  the  business  blocks  were  illuminated  with  set  designs,  and 
the  best  display  in  this  line  was  made  by  the  Northampton  Institu- 
tion for  Savings.  On  the  front  of  its  building  was  a  geometrical  design 
about  six  feet  high,  worked  out  in  lights  surrounding  a  large  star,  whose 
center  was  composed  of  light  green  lamps.  At  the  Northampton  National 
Bank  front  were  two  brilliant  shields,  on  which  appeared  respectively 
the  dates  "1833"  and  "1904."  The  First  National  Bank  offered  a 
fine  vantage  point  for  illumination,  which  was  fully  availed  of  by  the 
extension  of  several  lighted  streamers,  containing  about  500  incandes- 
cent lamps.  The  Smith  Charities  building,  just  beyond,  was  illuminated 
m  the  same  way.  Farther  up-town  a  large  bright  star  marked  the 
corner  of  the  Columbian  block,  and  Rahar's  Inn,  once  the  home  of 
the  late  Capt.  Enos  Parsons,  had  an  illuminated  transparent  arch  over 
the  entrance  to  the  grounds,  announcing  that  this  was  "Down  Where 
the  Wurzburger  flows." 


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Governor  Bates,  Staff  and  Ladies  at  Councilor   Irwin's  Residence,  Crescent  St. 


The  illumination  of  Main  street  was  increased  by  the  introduction 
of  powerful  calcium  lights  from  the  arcade  of  the  union  station  and  the 
roof  of  the  First  National  Bank,  and  the  bright  rays  from  these  machines 
were  sent  streaming  the  whole  length  of  the  street,  with  bewildering 
effect  to  some  of  the  uninitiated,  who  seemed  much  puzzled  bv  the 
frequent  glare. 

The  illumination  did  not  as  a  rule  extend  to  private  residences, 
until  Monday  night,  and  then  it  was  mostly  interior  window  display. 
The  house  occupied  by  Dr.  Sidney  A.  Clark,  on  Bridge  street,  was  elab- 
orately illuminated  on  the  outside  with  electric  lamps  and  attracted 
much  attention.  The  fountain  on  the  grounds  of  the  Pierpont  boarding 
house,  corner  of  Park  and  State  streets  (the  old  Whitcomb  place),  was 
illuminated  in  a  manner  somewhat  similar  to  the  court-house  fountain, 
and  some  of  the  passers-by  considered  it  almost  as  beautiful  as  the 
down-town  fountain. 


SATURDAY  NIGHT  BEFORE  THE  CELEBRATION 

Was  spent  generally  by  citizens  in  viewing  the  decoi-ations  and  illumi- 
nations just  described,  a  trial  of  the  latter  being  made  in  most  cases, 
and  giving  an  excellent  opportunity  for  the  curious  to  anticipate  the 
complete  spectacle  of  the  three  following  days  and  nights. 

No  other  public  entertainment  was  provided  for  that  evening, 
except  an  independent  one,  at  the  Warner  Meadow  golf  grounds.  There 
was  talk,  at  one  time,  of  having  an  historical  play  in  the  Academy  of 
Music,  as  a  part  of  the  Celebration  program,  but  this  feature  was  finally 
abandoned,  for  lack  of  time  to  carry  it  out.  A  very  pleasing  substitute 
and  appropriate  introduction  to  the  Celebration,  however — whether  so 
intended  or  not — was  the  production,  by  Ben  Greet's  company  of 
English  out-door  players,  Saturday  afternoon  and  evening,  June  4,  on 
the  Warner  Meadow  golf  grounds,  of  Shakespeare's  plays,  "Much  Ado 
About  Nothing"  and  "Midsummer  Night's  Dream." 

These  performances  were  attended,  afternoon  and  evening,  by 
large  audiences,  and  furnished  a  most  delightful  prelude  to  the  festivities 
of  the  coming  week.  The  night  performance  terminated,  unhappily, 
in  a  heavy  shower  of  rain,  and  increased  anxiety  as  to  the  weather 
outlook  for  the  next  few  days,  but  this  fear  was,  hap])ily,  not  justified. 


c — ^ 


U»«"_W-««««_JiJLJ»J»J« 


77ie  CITY'S 


MOTTO  Zo 


<— 7-   I 


S 


rr 


"(laritas,  ]E^ucatio,  Justitia  " 


CHARITY 

In  faith  and  hope  mankind  will  disagree, 
But  all  mankind's  concern  is  charity. 


Pope 


Cast  thy  bread  upon  the  waters,  for  thou  shalt   find   it  after 
many  daj'S. 

Bible 


Charity  begins   at   home,   yet  should   not  end   there.      When 
your  own   courtyard  thirsts  do  not   pour  the  water  abroad. 

M.  Greek 


EDUCATION 


For  we  should  remember  that  nothing  is  more  natural  for 
people  whose  education  is  neglected  than  to  spell  Eyolution 
with  an  initial  R. 

Lowell 

"  Democracy  " 

Make  Knowledge  circle  with  the  winds, 
But  let  her  herald.  Reyerence,  fly 
Before  her. 

Tennyson 

"  Love  thou  thy  Land  ' 


JUSTICE 

Justice  is  the  rightful  soyereign  of  the  world. 


Let  justice  be  done,  though  the  heayens  fall. 


Pindar 


Latin 


Nothing  brings  a  man  more  honor  than   to  be  inyariably 
just. 

Ibid 


THE  breaking  waves  dashed  hi^'h 
On  a  stern  and  rock-l)c)und  coast, 

And  the  heav}'  night  hung  dark 

The  hills  and  waters  o'er, 
When  a  band  of  exiles  mooted  their  bark 

On  the  wild  New  England  shore. 

What  sought  they  thus  afar  .'' 

Bright  jewels  of  the  mine  ? 
The  wealth  of  seas,  the  spoil  of  war  ?• — 

They  sought  a  faith's  pure  shrine  ! 

Ay,  call  it  holy  ground, 

The  soil  where  first  they  trod; 

They  have  left  vmstained  what  there  they  found- 
Freedom  to  worship  God. 

Felicia  Hemans. 


THE      FIRST      DAYj^SUNDAY 

SERMONS  AND  SERVICES  IN  THE  CHURCHES 


"Praise  to  our  (lod;  throuKh  all  our  i)ast  His  mighty  arm  hath  held  us  fast; 
Till  wars  and  perils,  toils  and  tears,  have  brought  the  rich  and  fruitful  years." 

a  IRew  JEncilan?  Sun&a\2 

Over  all  the  town  rested  the  Lord's  peace.  There  was  no  sound  on  the  village  street.  I>ook 
either  way  —  not  a  vehicle,  not  a  human  being.  The  smoke  rose  uji  soberly  and  quietly,  as  if  it 
said,  —  It  is  Sunday!  The  leaves  on  the  great  elms  hung  motionless,  glittering  with  dew,  a.s  if  they, 
too,  like  the  people  who  dwelt  under  their  shadow,  were  waiting  for  the   bell  to   ring  for  meeting. 

Hf;n'ry  Ward  Bkecher,  in  "  Norwood."' 


OTHER  days  of  the  Celebration  dawned  not  so  fair,  but  on  Sun- 
day, June  5,  1904,  the  sun  rose  clear  over  the  eastern  hills,  and 
found  Northampton  arrayed  like  a  bride  to  meet  her  beloved. 
The  near-by  mountains,  seared  and  furrowed  by  the  shock  of  ages,  yet 
ever  young,  seemed  to  grant  a  benediction  to  the  scene,  as  up  from  the 
verdant  meadows,  sparkling  and  dewy  with  the  fragrance  of  an  early 
New  England  summer  morning,  the  city  seeined  to  spring  into  life 
and  pour  forth  its  people,  old  and  young,  upon  the  streets,  to  do  honor 
to  the  exercises  of  the  first  day  of  the  week  and  the  first  day  of  the  Cel- 
ebration. Yet  over  all  brooded  the  quiet  of  the  Sabbath  of  the  fathers, 
and  the  early  settlers,  could  they  have  looked  upon  the  scene,  would 
have  been  gratified  indeed,  doubtless,  to  see  the  unanimity  with  which 
most  of  the  inhabitants  wended  their  way  to  the  churches,  in  reverent 
manner  and  with  thankful  hearts. 

Northampton  churches  were  probably  never  before  so  crowded. 
In  every  congregation  something  was  done  to  honor  the  occasion,  not 
only  in  the  sermons,  but  in  the  inusic,  and  generally  during  the  Sunday 
school  hours.  Each  church  found  plenty  of  honor  within  its  own  walls, 
but  many  outside  of  all  congregations  were  attracted  to  the  First  ("  Old  ") 
Church,  because  of  its  older  history  and  the  consequent  prestige  attached 
to  its  service  this  day.  In  the  limited  number  of  pages  allotted  to  this 
work,  it  has  been  found  impossible  to  report  sermons  in  full,  although 
it  was  at  first  hoped  to  do  so.  As  near  as  possible  the  reports  have 
been  gauged  to  the  importance  of  the  several  churches,  and  yet  it  was 
found  impossible  to  make  a  fast  rule  in  this  case  even.  One  of 
the  most  interesting  discourses,  from  an  historical  point  of  view,  was 


106 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


the  sermon  of  the  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church,  treating  upon  the 
famous  half-way  covenant  of  the  old-time  churches,  but  this  matter 
was  also  referred  to  in  the  sermon  preached  at  the  First  Church,  and  is 
a  matter  of  quite  familiar  local  history.  The  discourse  at  St.  Mary's 
Church  is  also  of  interest,  because  of  its  recital  of  a  tragical  bit  of  old 
local  history,  concerning  the  Irish  lads  Halligan  and  Daley,  and  the 
fact  that  the  preacher's  statement  of  the  innocence  of  the  accused  was 
disputed  in  the  local  press  within  a  day  or  two  after  he  made  it ;  but  the 
facts  were  correctly  stated  by  the  preacher  at  St.  Mary's  Church. 

In  nearly  all  the  churches  an  appropriate  musical  program  was 
rendered,  and  at  the  First  Church  and  others  some  of  the  music  written 
by  the  old  First  Church  organist.  Prof.  George  Kingsley,  was  given, 
the  "Old"  Church  also  noting  the  occasion  with  a  complete  historical 
musical  service,  under  the  direction  of  Organist  and  Director  Ralph  L. 
Baldwin. 


The  one  great  poem  of  New  England  is  her  Sunday. 
Through  that  she  has  escaped  materialism.  That  has  been 
a  crystal  dome  overhead,  through  which  Imagination  has 
been  kept  alive.  New  England's  imagination  is  to  be  found  — 
not  in  art  or  literature,  but  in  her  inventions,  her  social 
organism,  and,  above  all,  in  her  religious  life.  The  Sabbath 
has  been  the  nurse  of  that.  When  she  ceases  to  have  a 
Sunday,  she  will  be  as  this  landscape  is  —  now  growing  dark, 
all  its  lines  blurred,  its  distances  and  gradations  fast  merging 
into  sheeted  darkness  and  night. 

A  Sunday  Night  Reflection  in  "  Norwood." 


FIRST     CHURCH    AND     SUN  DAT    SCHOOL 


THE  First  ("Old")  Church  was  crowded  at  the  morning  service 
far  beyond  the  hmits  of  its  usual  congregation,  as  the  oldest 
church  and  the  pastoral  home  of  the  great  theologian,  Jona- 
than Edwards,  naturally  would  be,  upon  such  an  occasion,  and  the 
musical  service,  given  upon  a  subsequent  page,  was  listened  to  with  no 
less  profound  attention  than  the  graphic  historical  discourse  of  the 
pastor. 

Rev.  Dr.  Henrv  T.  Rose  took  for  his  subject,  "Religious  Beginnings 

in  Northampton."  His  text  was  from  Psalm 
44  :  3 — "  For  they  got  not  the  land  possession 
by  their  own  sword;  neither  did  their  own 
arm  save  them ;  but  thy  right  hand  and  thine 
arm,  and  the  light  of  thy  countenance,  be- 
cause thou  hadst  a  favor  unto  them." 

It  was  a  great  day  in  Northampton  on 
wdiich  its  first  church  was  formed.  At  the 
same  meeting  the  church  was  organized  and 
the  first  minister  ordained.  And  because  of 
the  importance  of  the  occasion  and  the  brev- 
ity and  fitness  of  the  report  of  it,  I  will  read 
you  the  record  as  it  stands  in  our  most  prec- 
ious and  ancient  book  of  church  records. 

"The  church  was  gathered  at  North- 
ampton June  1 8th,  i66i.  The  persons  that 
begun  that  work  were  in  number  eight,  viz: 
Mr.  Eleazar  Mather,  David  Wilton,  William 
Clarke,  John  Strong,  Henry  Cunliffe,  Hervey 
Woodward,  Thomas  Roote,  Thomas  Hanchett.  Messengers  that  were 
present  from  four  churches:  —  Mr.  Pelatiah  Glover,  Deacon  Clapp, 
Thomas  Tilstone  from  the  Cht:rch  of  Christ  at  Dorchester;  Mr.  John 
Eliot,  Sen.,  Goodman  AVilliams  from  the  Church  of  Christ  at  Roxbury; 
Capt.  John  Pynchon,  Deacon  Chapin  from  the  church  at  Springfield; 
Mr.  John  Rtissel  the  pastor,  Mr.  Goodwin,  Goodman  White  from  the 
Church  of  Christ  at  Hadleigh.  And  the  same  day,  after  they  had 
entered  into  covenant,  they  chose  Mr.  Eleazar  Mather  to  the  ofhce 
of  a  pastor,  which  they  had  concluded  to  do  before,  and  desired  Rev. 
Mr.  Eliot  and  Rev.  Mr.  Russel  to  ordain  him,  which  accordingly  was 
done." 

Here  are  two  or  three  names  of  special  interest  to  us.  John  Pyn- 
chon and  Dea.  Samuel  Chapin  from  the  First  Church  in  Springfield, 
together  with  Elizur  Holyoke,  deserve  a  place  among  the  founders  of 
this  town.  These  are  the  men,  though  never  settled  here,  whose  en- 
dorsement upon  the  petition  of  the  first  adventurers  commended  their 
enterprise  to  the  favor  of  the  General  Court.     We  have,  therefore,  a 


Rev.  Henry  T.  Rose,  D.D. 


108  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

certain   interest   in    Springfield's   traditions    and   in   her   noble   statues 
commemorating  her  founders. 

Another  member  of  that  group  which  recognized  the  new  church 
was  John  Eliot,  Senior,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Roxburv,  the  famous 
missionary  to  the  Indians  and  maker  of  the  Indian  Bible.  The  other 
minister  who  took  part  in  the  ordination  was  Mr.  Russel  of  Hadley,  in 
whose  house  were  sheltered  two  of  the  judges  who  passed  sentence  on 
King  Charles  I  of  England. 

It  will  not  be  inferred  froin  the  late  formation  of  the  church  that 
the  people  had  but  then  awakened  to  the  importance  of  religion.  On 
the  contrary,  these  were  the  kind  of  men  for  whom  religion  is  the  breath 
of  life.  They  were  courageous  souls,  in  a  manner  sifted  out  and  chosen 
from  a  greater  number.  Of  the  forty-five  whose  names  were  attached  to 
the  original  petition  and  covenant,  only  fourteen  became  actual  settlers, 
nor  were  all  these  here  from  the  outset.  It  was  an  easy  thing  to  enlist, 
but  in  view  of  the  perils  of  the  real  adventure  the  hearts  of  many  failed 
them.  There  were  twenty  families  to  begin  the  plantation.  They  needed 
all  their  courage.  Theirs  was  a  hamlet  on  the  frontier.  Except  to  the 
south  their  nearest  neighbors  were  eighty  miles  away.  There  were  no 
roads.  The  river  was  the  highway.  And  when  this  was  low  they  fol- 
lowed bridle  paths  or  cart  tracks  through  the  woods.  The  place  itself 
was  very  fair;  the  hills  encompassed  them,  but  their  isolation  was  com- 
plete. Life  was  tolerable  enough  in  summer  time,  but  the  earliest  winters 
must  have  been  bitter  indeed.  Their  greatest  danger  was  from  the 
Indians.  These  for  twenty  years  were  friendly,  but  after  that,  for  three- 
quarters  of  a  century,  the  townsmen  lived  in  apprehension.  They 
elected  frail  barricades  of  wood  against  their  foes,  but  their  best  de- 
fence was  the  stoutness  of  their  hearts.  From  fifty  to  a  hundred  of  them 
in  all,  men,  women,  and  children,  were  slain  by  the  savages.  The  first 
recorded  birth  in  the  new  settlement  is  of  a  child,  who  was  killed  twenty 
years  after  in  the  attack  on  Northfield.  Thirty  years  after  that  Eunice 
Mather,  daughter  of  the  first  minister,  and  wife  of  Rev.  John  Williams, 
a  captive  in  the  hands  of  the  Indians,  was  slain  on  the  way  to  Canada. 
These  were  times  when  the  farmers  took  their  guns  to  the  meadows.  The 
town  had  a  garrison  in  it;  there  were  famous  Indian  fighters.  The 
people  here  were  always  proud  of  warlike  men.  The  committee  appointed 
to  build  the  third  meeting-house  was  composed  of  seven  men,  of  whom 
five  bore  military  titles.  Still  the  life  of  the  colonists  had  its  compen- 
sations. It  was  rude  and  narrow,  but  they  had  known  no  other  sort. 
It  was  a  life  of  liberty  at  least,  free  from  convention  and  tyranny,  with 
possibilities  in  it,  and  abundance  of  room.  It  was  all  new.  The  enter- 
prise was  of  the  sort  to  appeal  to  youthful  hearts,  and  I  suppose  most  of 
the  settlers  were  young  men.  We  shall  never  know  how  many  of  them 
were  born  in  England,  but  it  is  more  likely  that  many  of  them  knew  the 
mother  country  only  through  hearing  it  talked  about  around  the  fire. 
They  do  not  seem  to  have  been  men  of  culture,  or  to  have  brought 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  109 

university  degrees  with  them.  The  immigration  had  practically  ceased 
some  years  before  they  came,  and  it  is  probable  that  more  than  half  of 
the  company  had  been  born  in  America.  Another  fact  indicates  that 
thev  were  of  the  younger  age.  During  the  first  seven  years,  only  eleven 
deaths  were  recorded.  This  is  very  different  from  the  story  of  Plymouth, 
when  in  the  first  winter  one-half  the  Mayflower  company  were  laid  at 
rest  in  the  frozen  ground. 

Their  common  passion  and  strongest  motive  was  religion.  It  is 
very  true  that  their  errand  was  not  a  crusade  or  mission.  They  did  not 
])retend  that  thev  were  here  to  found  in  the  woods  an  outpost  of  the 
citv  of  God.  They  were  men  of  common  sense,  with  a  sure  business 
instinct.  This  appears  in  their  first  petition  to  the  General  Court  "for 
liberty  to  plant,  possess  and  inhabit  Nonotuck."  They  "hope  that 
corn  and  cattle  may  be  raised  here,  beside  the  propagation  of  the  Gospel, 
and  a  comfortable  subsistence  may  enable  people  to  wait  upon  God  in 
his  holv  ordinances  without  distractions." 

But  under  these  phrases,  mixed  of  piety  and  shrewdness,  it  is  not 
hard  to  detect  an  accent  of  sincerity.  The  worldly  aim  was  subordi- 
nated to  the  needs  of  religion.  They  practiced  life  in  a  reverent  temper. 
Faith  was  the  strongest  factor  in  their  characters,  sustaining  them  w4th 
a  glorious  exhilaration  and  confidence.  It  brought  an  element  of  idealism 
into  their  lives,  which  had  been  sordid  and  narrow  enough  without  it. 
The  practical  nature  of  their  religion  appears  in  one  of  their  first  public 
acts.  Before  the  year  was  out,  they  had  begun  the  erection  of  a  meeting 
house.  This  fabric,  "of  sawen  timber,  with  a  chimney,  a  thatched  roof 
two  windows  and  a  single  door,"  was  not  of  imposing  dimensions,  but 
it  was  without  doubt  the  best  building  in  the  village.  It  was  not  designed 
expressly  for  religious  worship,  for  the  first  freemen  had  not  thought 
that  their  town  meetings  were  purely  secular  occasions.  Not  until  the 
fourth  house  of  worship  was  built  was  any  church  here  dedicated  to  the 
worship  of  God  by  special  ceremonies.  This  was  the  oldest  meeting 
house  save  one  in  Western  Massachusetts.  It  was  very  soon  outgrown, 
though  it  answered  the  needs  of  the  people  during  the  first  brief  pastor- 
ate. It  is  not  known  who  conducted  the  public  services  during  the 
first  year  or  two.  The  order  of  service  was  very  simple.  Between 
prayer  and  sermon  a  Psalm  was  sung;  unless  an  elder  or  assistant  was 
present  no  Scripture  was  read.  There  was  no  bell  in  the  first  meeting 
house,  and  the  people  were  assembled  at  the  call  of  the  trumpet. 

The  small  number  of  Christian  men  associated  in  the  church  must 
not  lead  us  to  conclude  that  their  act  was  of  no  importance  in  the  eyes 
of  the  community.  The  method  followed  here  was  one  in  vogue  in 
many  places.  A  few  prominent  men  were  chosen  as  a  center  of  organi- 
zation. These,  known  as  the  pillars  of  the  church,  made  a  covenant 
with  each  other,  were  recognized  by  council  and  then  by  vote  admitted 
others  to  fellowship,  and  so  the  church  was  gathered.  Of  the  seven 
founders  not  all  were  among  the  original  settlers.     Three  came  from 


no  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Dorchester,  with  the  new  minister,  by  letters  commissioned  "to  join 
with  others  for  the  gathering  of  a  church  in  Northampton."  They  were 
men  of  influence  and  good  estate.  Some  of  the  seven,  if  not  all,  were 
born  in  England.  Three  of  them  bore  names  that  are  not  now  repre- 
sented in  our  city  directory. 

A  covenant  was  adopted  and  signed  at  this  meeting  by  the  original 
seven  and  others,  until  seventy-one  had  signed.  It  were  good  to  know 
who  devised  and  wrote  this  covenant,  for  a  sweeter  and  more  spiritual 
form  of  words  of  this  order  the  past  has  not  left  us.  The  names  under- 
written represent  much  history  and  romance,  and  revered  and  dear 
family  traditions  in  this  and  many  another  place  go  straight  back  to 
them.  They  are  good  Enghsh  names,  two  for  each  person  and  no  more. 
As  nearly  as  possible  one-half  are  the  names  of  women,  quaint  and 
simple  and  old-fashioned  enough,  and,  it  might  be  guessed,  less  piously 
chosen  than  in  after  generations. 

In  the  seven  years,  between  the  founding  of  the  town  and  the 
organization  of  the  church,  the  original  company  of  twenty  families  had 
grown  to  a  community  of  about  three  hundred.  So  many  of  them  were 
children  whose  names  were  not  afhxed  to  the  covenant,  though  they 
were  considered  members  in  a  way,  that  it  appears  the  church  might 
have  comprised  almost  the  entire  adult  population.  Among  the  names 
preserved  with  the  covenant,  without  marks  to  distinguish  it  from  the 
rest,  is  that  of  Eleazar  Mather,  the  first  minister.  He  was  the  son  of 
Richard  Mather  of  Dorchester,  and  brother  of  Increase,  greatest  of  the 
name,  and  uncle  of  Cotton  Mather.  He  was  born  in  Dorchester  in 
1637.  Was  graduated  at  Harvard  when  he  was  nineteen,  and  at 
twenty-one  years  of  age  came  here  to  preach.  He  died  after  eleven 
years  of  service  at  the  age  of  thirty-two.  His  work  here  was  mainly 
local.  He  was  a  dihgent  and  earnest  man,  and  with  all  it  seems  prudent 
and  sagacious,  for  he  left  a  not  inconsiderable  property.  His  nephew 
Cotton  said  of  him,  "As  he  was  a  very  zealous  preacher,  and  accordingly 
saw  many  seals  of  his  ministry,  so  he  was  a  very  pious  worker,  and 
remarkablv  ripe  for  heaven." 

After  the  death  of  Eleazar  Mather  the  church  lost  no  time  in  filling 
the  vacant  office.  The  second  pastor  was  Solomon  Stoddard.  Fol- 
lowing the  custom  he  preached  by  way  of  trial,  but  hardly,  one  would 
think,  for  so  long  a  time  as  intervened  before  his  ordination,  which  took 
place  in  1672.  The  parish  had  made  liberal  provision  for  his  support, 
voted  money  for  his  house  and  given  him  title  to  land  in  the  meadows, 
for  the  minister  at  that  time,  like  every  other  man,  was  a  farmer.  The 
ceremonies  at  his  installation  are  recorded  in  the  church  book  in  his 
own  handwriting.  He  was  a  proHfic  writer,  an  eager  controversiaHst, 
pubhshing  pamphlets  and  sermons  in  the  manner  of  the  day.  Yet  he 
was  a  man  of  reserve  and  modesty,  of  quiet  and  dignified  manners  and 
sincere  piety.  He  was  not  a  great  philosopher,  like  his  grandson,  Mr. 
Edwards,  and  his  interest  in  theological  problems  was  rather  practical 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  111 


than  speculative.  He  was  a  man  of  great  sagacity,  wise  in  counsel, 
considerate  of  the  ethical  aspects  of  religious  doctrines.  He  discussed 
questions  of  personal  conduct  such  as  these:  "What  right  doth  belong 
to  the  Sabbath?"  "At  what  time  of  the  evening  doth  the  Sabbath 
begin?"  "Did  we  any  wrong  to  the  Indians  in  buying  their  land  at  a 
small  price?"  "Is  it  lawful  for  men  to  set  their  dwelling  houses  at  such 
a  distance  from  the  place  of  public  worship  that  they  and  their  families 
cannot  attend  it?"    "Is  it  lawful  to  wear  long  hair?" 

In  their  times  these  questions  were  of  importance,  with  religious 
bearings.  But  Stoddard's  fame  does  not  rest  on  these  discussions. 
His  name  is  forever  associated  with  the  fierce  debate  which  stirred  the 
churches  concerning  sacramental  questions.  Mr.  Stoddard  advocated 
what  came  to  be  the  prevailing  custom  in  nearly  all  the  churches  in  these 
parts  on  the  half-way  covenant  question,  though  oddly  enough  he  took 
a  view  opposed  both  by  his  predecessor  and  successor  here.  When  he 
came,  the  church  had  already  adopted  the  more  liberal  view  of  the  sacred 
ordinance,  which  its  first  pastor  had  opposed.  The  action  was  deferred 
for  a  time,  perhaps  in  deference  to  Mr.  Mather's  wishes,  but  toward  the 
end  of  his  life  it  was  adopted,  whether  to  his  grief  or  not  we  are  not  told. 
After  Mr.  Stoddard  was  installed  the  church  voted  "That  from  year  to 
year  such  as  grow  up  to  adult  age  in  the  church  shall  present  themselves 
to  the  elders,  and  if  they  seem  to  understand  and  assent  unto  the  doctrine 
of  faith,  not  to  be  scandalous  in  life  and  willing  to  submit  themselves  to 
the  government  of  Christ  in  this  church,  shall  publicly  own  the  covenant 
and  be  acknowledged  members  of  the  church." 

There  follows  a  form  of  words  to  be  used  in  the  admission  of  members 
into  a  state  of  education,  and  another  form  to  be  used  at  the  admission 
of  members  into  full  communion.  Mr.  Stoddard  published  views  which 
drew  to  him  great  attention  and  a  degree  of  opposition.  He  described 
the  Lord's  Supper  as  a  regenerating  ordinance.  And  it  was  his  practice 
to  admit  baptized  persons  to  communion  without  requiring  evidence 
that  they  were  changed  in  heart,  or  subject  to  any  operation  of  divine 
grace.  i3ut  we  are  not  to  conclude  from  this  usage  that  Mr.  Stoddard 
was  a  man  to  encourage  dangerous  liberalities.  His  idea  was  to  transfer 
the  decisive  moment  and  experience  from  before  until  after  partaking 
of  the  solemn  rite.  He  believed  as  strongly  as  any  of  the  brethren  in 
regeneration  and  thought  the  sacrament  a  practical  means  of  grace  to 
secure  it.  And  it  is  incredible  that  there  should  be  truth  in  the  report 
that  he  himself  fixed  his  conversion  at  a  time  long  after  his  ministry 
began  and  attributed  it  to  a  communion  season,  and  a  manifest  answer 
to  the  prayers  of  his  wife  and  the  holy  women  of  the  congregation. 

As  Mr.  Stoddard's  long  and  memorable  pastorate  drew  to  a  close, 
he  was  greatly  cheered  and  strengthened  by  the  election  on  the  part 
of  the  church  of  his  grandson,  Jonathan  Edwards,  as  his  colleague  and 
successor.  He  died  in  1730,  and  a  great  mourning  was  made  for  him. 
A  leading  minister  said  in  a  sermon,  "For  some  years  the  most  aged 


112  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

minister  in  the  province,  a  Peter  here  among  the  disciples  and  ministers 
of  our  Lord  Jesus,  very  much  our  primate  and  a  prince  among  us." 

Edwards  called  him  a  "very  great  man,  of  strong  powers  of  mind, 
of  great  grace  and  a  great  authority,  of  a  masterly  countenance,  speech 
and  behavior."  "The  officers  and  leaders  of  Northampton  imitated  his 
manners  and  thought  it  an  excellency  to  be  like  him."  The  Indians 
called  him  "the  Englishman's  God."  He  was  a  broad  and  generous 
man,  holding  the  dark  and  rigid  principles  of  the  faith  in  an  intellectual 
assent  tempered  with  mercy.  A  gentler  spirit  than  some  of  his  asso- 
ciates in  that  time,  he  was  revered  and  loved  and  accepted  as  of  un- 
questioned authority.  The  account  of  his  funeral  is  printed  in  the 
Boston  Ncivs  Letter  of  Thursday,  Feb.  20,  1729,  in  a  letter  from  North- 
ampton, written  on  the  13th.  "His  labors  and  usefulness,"  it  says, 
"were  drawn  out  to  an  uncommon  length.  Till  his  86th  year  he  was  a 
constant  preacher  some  part  of  the  Lord's  day  and  at  a  monthly  lecture 
without  the  use  of  notes  at  all  .  .  .  and  it  could  not  be  discerned  that 
his  powers  were  much  abated."  "He  used  for  many  years  together  to 
make  his  annual  visit  to  Boston  at  the  time  of  the  Commencement, 
and  the  day  after  to  preach  the  public  lecture  to  a  numerous  audience, 
expecting  and  glad  to  hear  him." 

"His  station  was  indeed  in  a  remote  corner  of  the  land,  but  his 
light  and  influence  went  out  throughout  the  whole  country,  and  his 
being  our  pastor  gave  a  name  and  reputation  to  the  town."  In  the 
church  book,  the  last  entry  in  Mr.  Stoddard's  handwriting,  though 
somewhat  uncertain  with  age,  records  the  ordination  of  Jonathan 
Edwards  as  pastor  of  the  church  of  Northampton. 

It  is  hard  to  believe  that  all  this  history  falls  within  the  compass  of 
one  lifetime.  All  these  events  took  place  during  the  life  of  Esther, 
daughter  of  John  Warham,  a  Puritan  minister  of  Exeter  in  England, 
who  came  with  a  church  organized  at  Plymouth  before  sailing  first  to 
Dorchester  and  then  to  Windsor,  Conn.  There  this  child  Esther  was 
born,  and  when  she  was  fifteen  married  to  Eleazar  Mather,  Sept.  29, 
1659.  A  widow  of  twenty-six  years,  with  three  children,  she  was  mar- 
ried in  1670  to  Solomon  Stoddard,  and  shared  his  work  and  fortune 
during  his  long  ministry  here  and  outlived  him  by  the  space  of  seven 
years,  dying  at  the  age  of  92.  In  her  time  the  sphere  of  woman  was 
very  much  restricted.  There  were  no  clubs,  no  social  or  charitable 
organizations;  no  woman  held  any  office  in  the  church,  taught  in  the 
Sunday  school  or  went  on  missions.  Little  is  known  of  her  life,  but  that 
little  proves  that  she  did  not  quarrel  with  the  Puritan  ideal  of  woman- 
hood. She  was  a  true  wife,  a  mother  of  many  children,  dignified  in  her 
household,  immortalized  by  her  spinning,  given  to  devotion,  firm  in 
government  and  tried  by  many  sorrows.  A  letter  is  kept  of  hers,  which 
renews  our  sense  of  the  peril  of  life  in  her  rude  community.  One  of  her 
sons  had  died ;  a  daughter  had  just  been  killed  by  the  Indians  at  Deerfield ; 
and  another  son  captured  by  the  enemy  had  died  at  "Brest  in  France 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  113 


while  waiting  to  be  transported  into  England."  "I  had  not  done  mourn- 
ing for  the  former  but  God  hath  added  grief  to  my  sorrow.  Therefore 
we  need  to  be  ready  seeing  we  know  not  when  our  Lord  will  come." 
She  bids  her  child  farewell,  subscribing  herself,  "Your  sorrowful  mother," 
but  adds  a  postscript  concerned  with  household  details. 

So  between  their  homes,  with  the  crowding  humble  cares,  and 
their  church,  with  its  strong  doctrine  and  high  inspirations,  these  lowly 
and  pure  and  glorious  lives  were  bounded.  A  nobler  generation  than 
this  there  has  not  been  upon  the  earth,  nor  one  of  whom  it  is  better 
fortune  to  be  born. 

The  limit  of  our  time  is  reached  and  here  I  must  make  an  end.  We 
have  reviewed  the  story  of  the  beginnings  of  this  town  in  the  period  of 
the  first  two  pastorates  of  this  church.  On  several  occasions  of  late 
there  has  been  opportunity  to  speak  here  of  the  career  and  influence 
and  fame  of  Jonathan  Edwards,  third  minister  of  Northampton. 

The  historical  musical  service,  conducted  by  Ralph  L.  Baldwin, 
was  as  follows: 

Prelude:     Themes  from  "  Meistersingers,"  R.  Wagner,  i8ij-iSgj 

Anthem:      "O  Clap  Your  Hands,"  Sir  John  Staincr,  1840-igoi 

Gloria  Patri:     8th  Gregorian  Tone. 

Anthem:     "The  New  Jerusalem,"  Jeremiah  In  galls 

Hymn  No.  4Q7,  Northfield,  Jeremiah  Ingalls,  iSoj 

Anthem:      "AveVerum,"  Mozart,  1756-1791 

Hymn  No.  582,  Tappan,  George  Kingsley,  organist  in  this  church,  1857-1S65. 
Hymn  No.  948,  "Militant,"  J.  Barnhy,  1868 

"Seven-fold  Amen,"  Stainer 

Postlude:      "St   Ann's  Fugue,"  Bach,  168J-1750 


XLbc  SunDa^  Scbool 

According  to  an  invitation  extended,  nearly  all  the  morning's  con- 
gregation remained  for  the  Sunday-school  session.  Superintenden- 
Robert  F.  Armstrong  presided.  He  called  upon  the  Rev.  Gerald  Stanley 
Lee  for  Scripture  reading  and  prayer,  and  then  introduced  Gov.  John 
L.  Bates,  who  spoke  as  follows: 

I  am  pleased,  Mr.  Superintendent,  to  see  the  American  and  English 
flags  draped  over  this  pulpit,  and  I  am  glad  to  have  the  pleasure 
to  stand  here  and  extend  a  welcome  to  Old  England  from  this  city 
of  Northampton  in  New  England,  on  this  interesting  occasion.  We  have 
quarreled  with  the  mother  country  some,  but  we  have  always  maintained 
the  warmest  love  and  regard  for  her,  and  the  depth  of  our  love  was  never 
deeper  than  it  is  today,  when  we  see  the  two  countries  advance  side  by 
side,  carrying' the  world  forward  in  the  civilization  founded  by  Chris- 
tianity.    It  is  a  pleasure,  Mr.  Superintendent,  to  stand  looking  at  the 


114  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

faces  of  these  children.  I  do  not  know  what  I  can  say  to  them.  I  do 
not  think  that  they  need  any  talking  to.  To  me  they  look  about  right, 
and  it  is  my  hope  and  belief  that  the  future  of  Northampton  is  certainly 
assured  when  I  look  into  the  faces  of  these  men  and  women  of  thirty  to 
forty  years  from  now.  I  suppose  that  the  city  is  not  celebrating  because 
of  the  area  of  it,  nor  because  of  its  beautiful  location,  nor  because  of  its 
public  buildings  or  its  various  enterprises.  There  is  something  back  of 
all  that.  It  is  not  because  it  has  existed  250  years,  although  that  is 
an  achievement  for  a  city.  It  is  because  of  its  influence.  Because  it  has 
stood  for  something  these  250  years.  Because  it  has  a  character  which 
it  may  be  difficult  to  define,  but  which  it  is  not  difficult  to  admire  and 
respect  —  a  character  which  is  admired  and  known  wherever  the  city  is 
known.  It  stands  forth  in  our  mind  as  a  real  monument  and  a  monu- 
ment that  has  been  erected  by  the  people  who  have  gone  before  those  of 
this  generation  in  this  city.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  know,  Mr.  Superintend- 
ent, that  the  people  of  Northampton,  in  the  beginning  of  this  Celebra- 
tion, recognize  that  in  the  founding  of  their  country,  as  has  been  told 
us  in  the  well-chosen  words  of  your  pastor  this  morning,  the  church  was 
commenced  with  the  beginning  of  the  settlement,  and  that  the  church 
and  the  town  hall  were  one,  for  in  those  early  days  the  town  meetings 
were  held  for  no  other  purpose,  except  that  the  church  might  be  main- 
tained. We  have  recently  observed  Memorial  Day  and  considered  some 
of  the  results  of  the  war.  We  have  been  surprised  as  we  have  heard 
orators  tell  what  the  nation  has  accomplished.  We  feel  almost  as  if 
there  was  nothing  within  the  possession  of  the  human  intellect  that 
could  not  be  accomplished  by  the  American  people.  As  we  realize  what 
progress  has  been  made  since  the  city  was  founded,  250  years  ago,  we 
fear  not  the  problems  of  the  future,  because  we  have  had  to  overcome 
worse  problems  in  the  past.  These  problems  do  not  disturb  us,  but  the 
problems  we  have  with  us  are  the  old  problems  of  our  fathers,  and 
which  they  temporarily  solved  when  they  came  to  this  land.  They 
are  the  old  problems  that  the  Sunday  school  is  helping  in  the  solution 
of,  and  they  are  ])roblems  of  character.  It  is  a  double  pleasure  for  me 
to  come  here  today,  to  extend  to  you  greetings  on  this  occasion,  believ- 
ing that  your  work  is  not  only  helping  men  and  women  as  individuals, 
but  making  it  certain  that  this  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
and  for  the  people,  shall  not  perish  from  the  earth. 


Hon.  Samuel  S.  Campion  of  Northampton,  England,  was  the  last 
speaker  to  the  Sunday  school.     He  said: 

Boys  and  girls — or  shall  I  say  brothers  and  sisters — I  am  from 
Northampton,  England,  and  am  standing  on  the  sacred  soil  of  New 
England.  I  am  sure  that  no  person  sang  with  more  earnestness  than 
I  the  hymn  this  morning. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  115 

"O  God,  beneath  Thy  guiding  hand, 
Our  exiled  fathers  crossed  the  sea." 

Those  brave  old  Puritans  and  Pilgrims  were  your  fathers  and  my 
fathers.  I  come  from  Northampton,  England,  to  greet  you,  boys  and 
girls,  and  you  children  of  an  older  growth,  on  this  auspiciovis  anniver- 
sary, and  it  is  with  peculiar  pleasure  that  I  find  myself  addressing  a 
Sunday-school  gathering  in  the  city  of  Northampton,  Mass.  First,  let 
me  sav  how  warmly  I  appreciate  the  kind  words  which  the  Governor 
has  said  in  regard  to  my  coming  here.  It  is  most  gratifying  to  find  a 
gentleman  occupying  his  high  position  addressing  a  Sunday-school  gath- 
ering on  the  high  ideals  of  citizenship.  To  quote  the  words  of  one  of 
our  own  poets,  William  Cowper,  who  was  associated  with  old  North- 
ampton— 

"Such  men  are  born  to  station  and  command. 
When  Providence  means  mercy  to  a  land." 

The  Governor  has  referred  to  the  differences  which  have  arisen  at  various 
times  between  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States.  After  all,  they 
have  been  family  quarrels,  and  have  not  interfered  with  the  real  family 
affection  between  us.  I  may  apply  to  them  the  words  of  the  Earl  of 
Surrey,  one  of  our  early  English  writers — 

"The  falling  out  of  faithful  friends 
Renewing  is  of  love." 

I  come  to  bring  the  greetings  of  the  Sunday-school  children  and  workers 
of  old  Northampton  to  the  Sunday-school  children  and  workers  of  this 
old  city  in  the  new  Continent.  In  the  old  town  we  have  upwards  of 
16,000  Sunday-school  children  of  all  denominations,  with  a  population 
of  90,000.  And  I  know  they  feel  the  greatest  interest  in  your  Celebra- 
tion, and  wish  you  all  the  greatest  happiness  and  the  highest  success 
in  your  school  work.  It  is  a  great  happiness  to  know  that  you  and  they 
revere  the  same  Book,  are  devoted  to  the  same  faith,  own  the  same 
Lord,  and  recognize  each  other  as  the  children  of  one  common  Father. 
Every  Sunday  you  niav  think  of  us  as  singing  similar  hymns,  often 
exactly  the  same  hymns,  reading  and  studying  the  same  lessons,  from 
the  one  great  Book,  in  the  same  tongue  and  in  the  same  spirit.  We 
belong  to  the  one  great  army  of  God's  children,  everywhere  learning  to 
follow  out  the  teaching  of  the  one  Great  Teacher,  Jesus  Christ.  As  I 
sat  here  during  the  service  and  looked  through  your  hymn  book,  I  found, 
as  I  expected  to  find,  many  of  the  familiar  hymns  we  are  accustomed  to 
sing  on  the  other  side.  There  are  hymns  by  William  Cowper,  to  whom 
I  have  already  referred,  by  the  Rev.  John  Newton,  curate  of  Olney — 
and  the  friend  of  Cowper, — by  Philip  Doddridge,  who  was  a  Congrega- 
tional minister  at  Old  Northampton — hymn  writer,  preacher  and  theo- 
logian,— by  Isaac  Watts,  and  many  others.  Isaac  Watts,  some  of  you 
may  remember,  was  on  one  occasion  rallied  by  a  Mrs.  Rowe  on  the 
smallness  of  his  stature.     He  replied  — 


116  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

"Could  I  in  stature  reach  the  Pole, 
Or  grasp  the  ocean  in  my  span, 
I'd  still  be  measured  by  my  soul, 

The  mind's  the  standard  of  the  man." 

You  in  the  new  country  have  been  doing  much  to  teach  us  of  the 
old  country  and  of  the  old  world  that  the  standard  of  excellence  is  not 
to  be  found  in  titles  or  position  or  wealth,  but  in  personal  worth,  capacity 
and  moral  achievement — that  true  greatness  is  to  be  found  in  character 
in  the  degree  to  which  we  carry  out  the  will  of  God,  and  that  it  is  right- 
eousness which  exalts  a  nation.  I  am  a  subject  of  the  King  of  England, 
and  am,  therefore,  what  you  would  call  a  Royalist.  You  are  all  subjects 
of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  and  are  Republicans.  We  on  our 
side  think  that  our  country  is  a  true  Republic,  with  a  King  as  a  sort  of 
permanent  President.  But  whatever  be  the  form  of  government,  we 
are  all — whether  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  or  the  other — Royalists, 
subjects  of  the  King  of  Kings,  and  citizens  of  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven — 
"One  is  your  Father  and  all  ye  are  brethren." 

There  is  another  reason  which  links  your  Celebration  with  the  old 
town  of  Northampton,  in  England,  and  which  makes  it  fitting  that  I 
should  bring  you  greetings  from  the  Sunday  schools  of  Northampton. 
I  am  the  editor  of  a  very  old  newspaper,  printed  and  published  at  North- 
ampton, England.  It  is  called  The  Ahrthamptoii  Mercury.  We  believe 
it  to  be  the  oldest  newspaper  in  Europe,  and,  therefore,  much  older 
than  any  newspaper  in  America.  It  was  first  published  on  May  2nd, 
1720,  and  its  founders  were  Robert  Raikes  and  William  Dicey.  Now 
Robert  Raikes  afterwards  went  to  Gloucester,  also  in  Old  England,  and 
started  a  newspaper  there.  His  son  was  Robert  Raikes,  who  founded 
Sunday  schools  in  the  old  country  about  one  hundred  and  twenty  years 
ago.  In  a  sense,  therefore,  you  see  the  Sunday-school  movement  may 
be  said  to  have  sprung  from  Northampton  through  Robert  Raikes. 
You  will  understand  how  appropriate  it  is,  therefore,  I  should  bring  to 
your  Sunday  schools  here  the  affectionate  greetings  and  good  wishes 
of  the  Sunday  schools  of  my  old  city. 

Still  another  link  connects  us  which  I  should  like  to  mention,  and 
which  makes  it  especially  fitting  that  I,  as  representing  Old  Northamp- 
ton, should  come  to  you.  The  ancestors  of  George  Washington,  the 
father  of  your  country,  lived  in  Northampton  and  its  immediate  dis- 
trict. Some  of  them  lie  buried  in  the  church  of  Great  Brington,  six 
miles  from  Northampton — in  the  same  church  where  also  repose  the 
remains  of  Earl  Spencer's  great  ancestors,  with  whom  the  Washingtons 
intermarried.  In  the  graveyard  of  that  same  church  my  father  and 
mother  lie  buried.  So  that,  from  the  personal  point  of  view,  I  am 
proud  to  associate  myself  with  the  ancestors  of  George  Washington.  I 
come  to  you,  if  I  may  so  put  it,  fresh  from  the  sacred  associations 
which  ally  our  country  with  yours. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  117 

One  other  circumstance  I  permit  myself  to  mention,  is  of  a  purely 
personal  character.  It  struck  ine  with  a  sense  of  pleased  surprise  that 
the  name  of  your  pastor  is  the  Rev.  Henry  Rose.  My  father,  although 
a  Nonconformist  minister,  found  in  the  Rev.  Henry  Rose,  at  one  time 
Rector  of  Great  Brington — the  Washington  Church  —  a  dear  personal 
friend;  and  it  was  the  Rev.  Henry  Rose  who  consigned  his  remains  to 
the  tomb  in  Great  Brington  churchyard.  It  is  a  coincidence  not  without 
interest,  I  think,  in  these  celebrations,  showing  how  direct  and  personal 
are  the  ties  which  bind  not  only  Old  Northampton  in  England  to  North- 
ampton in  Massachusetts,  but  the  old  country  across  the  seas  to  yours. 
I  greet  you,  then,  in  the  name  of  our  Sunday  schools  across  the  sea. 
I  know  that  today  at  a  Sunday  school  of  three  hundred  children,  in  the 
Old  Northampton,  where  I  am  superintendent,  they  will  be  thinking  of 
me  as  I  am  thinking  of  them.  They  will  be  wondering  how  I  am  get- 
ting on,  in  the  far  distance  I  have  gone  from  the  old  home.  But  I 
know  that  their  prayers  and  good  wishes  will  be  for  you  and  yours. 
They  will  hope  and  pray  that  you  and  they  together  may  glory  in 
belonging  to  the  same  kingdom,  in  living  under  the  providence  of  the 
same  God,  in  enjoying  the  salvation  of  the  same  Saviour.  They  will 
trust  and  pray  that  the  ties  which  bind  our  peoples  may  be  multiplied 
and  strengthened  as  the  years  go  by;  that  the  peoples  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  race  may  be  one  in  their  desires  and  efforts  to  advance  the 
Master's  kingdom  on  earth. 


The  Rev.  Henry  Rose  remarked  that  he  did  not  know  his  ancestry 
in  the  old  country  had  ever  included  in  their  number  any  one  so  respect- 
able as  a  Rector  of  the  Established  Church. 

At  the  invitation  of  Mr.  Armstrong,  the  superintendent,  the  whole 
of  the  scholars  and  congregation  arose  in  support  of  a  proposal  to 
send  to  the  Sunday  schools  of  Northampton  hearty  greetings  on  the 
occasion  of  this  Celebration,  in  response  to  the  greetings  conve3'ed  by 
Mr.  Campion. 


ST.    JOHN'S     EPISCOPAL     CHURCH 


J 


THE  rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  Rev.  Lyman  P.  Powell,  took 
for  his  subject,  "Our  Obligations  to  the  Past,"  and  the  text, 
"Other    men    have   labored,    and   ye   are   entered    into    their 
labors." — John  4:  38.     He  said  in  part: 

In  the  lexicon  of  life  there  is  no  such  word  as  chance.  Nothing 
happens  without  cause.  Today  is  rooted  in  the  past.  This  truth  we 
ought  today  to  realize  with  all  its  force. 

God  and  man  alike  have  labored  here 
to  our  delight  and  i)rofit.  Natural  beauties 
and  natural  advantages  are  the  background 
of  man's  efforts  here,  and  man  has  made  the 
most  of  them.  To  thrift  and  enterprise  and 
all  the  other  virtues  of  the  typical  New  Eng- 
land town  our  forbears  have  added  gener- 
osity. No  town  of  its  size  in  all  New  England 
has  perhaps  received  so  many  benefactions 
at  the  hands  of  citizens  or  near-by  neighbors. 
So  it  has  been  from  the  day  of  Major  Haw- 
l^y's  generosity  to  schools  to  these  later  days 
of  Smith  College  and  the  Forbes  Library  and 
vSt.  John's  Church,  the  gift  of  one  not  resident 
of  Northampton,  but  still  mindful  of  the  rock 
whence  he  was  hewn. 

Men  who  have  had  no  silver  and  no  gold 
to  give  have  given  more,  themselves;  and 
from  Bloody  Brook  to  Santiago  you  will  find 
the  record  of  their  more  than  generous  generosity.  Preachers  we  have 
had  who  have  bestowed  on  us  the  gift  of  fame,  and  that  is  always 
precious.  To  call  the  roll  of  lawyers  who  have  lent  the  town  its  dig- 
nity and  wisdom  is  to  name  most  of  the  leading  families  for  many  a 
generation.  Our  phvsicians  are  today  as  expert  as  the  town  ever  had. 
Better  work  is  turned  out  now  perhaps  by  our  literary  folk  than  ever 
before.  But  best  of  all,  from  first  to  last,  the  town  has  had  more  than 
its  need  of  average  folk  above  the  average  in  character,  whose  contri- 
bution to  the  making  of  the  best  in  all  our  past  is  as  incalculable  in 
the  sight  of  man  as  it  is  inestimable  to  the  One  who  knows  the  secrets 
of  all  hearts.  And  today  we  meditate  upon  their  labors  quite  as  much 
as  on  the  labors  of  our  great  and  more  conspicuous. 

Others  have  labored  and  we  are  all  the  better  for  their  labors,  and 
thereby  hangs  a  duty,  the  duty  of  appreciation — appreciation  of  the 
living  who  are  trying  quietly  and  earnestly,  all  around  us,  to  live  up  to  the 
standards  set  by  our  forefathers.  Again  there  is  the  duty  to  prove  our 
right  to  reap  the  harvest  which  the  dead  have  sown,  by  living  as  they 
did  at  their  best,  to  the  spirit,  not  to  the  flesh;  living  with  a  passion  for 


Rev.  Lvman   P.  Powell 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  119 

reality  which  ill  brooks  the  vulgarity  of  those  who  have  no  more  to 
contribute  to  the  town  than  money  and  which  hales  to  the  bar  of 
common  sense  the  silly  affectations  and  pretentious  conventionalities  of 
any  who  would  turn  this  good  old  town  into  a  glittering  cross  section 
of  New  York  or  Paris. 

And  then  at  last  there  is  the  duty  to  add  to  our  benefactions  and  to 
strengthen  them  in  every  way  we  can.  Smith  College  ought  to  have 
five  times  the  endowment  it  now  has.  Our  great  Forbes  Library  needs 
much  more  money  for  administrative  purposes.  The  Dickinson  Hospital 
ought  to  have  a  far  more  liberal  allowance  from  the  town.  And  our 
church,  St.  John's,  will  find  in  its  endowment  a  ban  and  not  a  blessing 
unless  we  one  and  all  contribute  to  its  support  as  freely  as  though  it 
were  not  liberally  endowed. 

What  the  future  of  Northampton  is  to  be  no  one  knows,  and  yet 
we  dare  to  hope,  we  have  good  reason  to  expect,  that  when  our  children 
and  our  children's  children  celebrate  the  town's  300th  anniversary  thrift 
and  industry  will  be  circumscribed  by  love  and  liberalitv,  and  culture 
still  will  shine  as  it  shines  now  through  the  transparent  medium  of 
Christian  character. 


The  musical  program  of  the  morning  was  as  follows  : 

Organ  Prelude:      Slow  Movement  from  5th  Sonata,  Giiilniant 

Processional  Hymn  176:      "For  all  the  Saints  who  from  Their  Labors  Rest," 

Barnby 
Gloria  Tibi,  Wagner 

Hymn  496:      "Lord  of  Our  Life  and  God  of  Our  Salvation,"  Barnby 

Offertory  Anthem:     "O  Lord,  Thou  Art  My  God,"  C.  C.  Chase 

Sanctus,  Stainer 

Communion  Hymn  225.      "Bread  of  the  World,"  Hodges 

Gloria  in  Excelsis,  Chant  205,  Zeniie 

Recessional  Hymn,  "O  God,  Our  Help  in  Ages  Past,"  Croft 

Organ  Postlude,  Processional  March,  Marcus  H.  Carroll 


BAPTIST 


C     H      U     R      C      H 


REV.  John  C.  Breaker  of  the  Baptist  Church  spoke  on  the 
topic,  "Northampton  as  a  Center  of  Rehgious  Influence." 
Text,    Psalm  143:  5,  "I  remember  the  days  of  old." 

Mr.  Breaker  said  in  part :  In  entering  upon  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  Quarter  Millennial  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  this 
town  it  is  eminently  fitting  that  attention  should  be  centered  first  of 
all    ui)on    religion.       Whatever    reputation     Northampton     niay     have 

gained  through  its  industrial  and  edu- 
cational institutions;  however  far  spread 
its  fame  today  as  an  educational  center; 
its  chief  claim  to  distinction  rests  upon 
the  fact  that  influences  have  gone  forth 
from  this  town  affecting  the  theological 
thinking  and  the  ecclesiastical  practices 
not  only  of  New  England  and  the  United 
States,  but  of  the  entire  English-speaking 
religious  world. 

When  the  Pilgrims  came  to  the  shores 
of  the  new  continent  they  brought  with 
them  certain  ecclesiastical  customs  and 
practices  which  they  set  in  operation. 
Among  these,  that  one  of  the  qualifica- 
tions to  be  required  of  a  voter  should  be 
membership  in  the  church  and  participa- 
tion in  the  ordinance  of  the  Lord's  Supper. 
It  has  sometimes  been  said  that  this 
practice  was  peculiar  to  the  churches  of  New  England ;  and  the  Pilgrims 
and  the  Puritans  have  been  called  "bigots"  in  consequence.  The 
custom  was  not  peculiar  to  New  England,  however;  it  was  common 
to  the  other  colonies  and  to  the  lands  across  the  sea.  The  churches 
of  New  England  received  as  members  those  only  who  could  give  a 
credible  evidence  of  conversion.  This  put  the  voting  power  into  the 
hands  of  those  men  only  who  were  by  experience,  as  well  as  by  pro- 
fession. Christians. 

At  the  time  of  the  settlement  of  this  town,  in  1654,  there  had 
arisen  a  warm  discussion  in  the  churches  of  New  England  about  the 
qualifications  for  church  membership.  This  discussion  culminated  in 
what  has  been  known  as  the  "Half-Way  Covenant."  This  covenant 
provided  that  all  persons  who  had  been  baptized  in  infancy,  who  under- 
stood the  covenant,  and  who  were  not  guilty  of  any  crime  a  court  would 
judge  scandalous,  should  be  received  to  church  membership,  and  enjoy 
all  the  privileges  thereof,  except  the  Lord's  Supper.  This  half-way 
covenant  had  been  received  by  a  vast  majority  of  the  churches  in  New 
England  when  in   1672   Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard  became  pastor  of  the 


Eev.  John  C.  Rreaker 


NORTHAMPTON.  MASSACHUSETTS  121 

church  here  in  Northampton.  Mr.  Stoddard  not  only  accepted  the 
half-way  covenant,  but  insisted  that  the  Lord's  Supper  should  be  given 
to  all  the  members  of  the  church.  In  the  controversy  which  followed 
he  advanced  the  theory  that  the  Lord's  Supper  is  a  converting  ordinance, 
and  should  be  given  to  all.  While  these  views  were  combated  by 
the  ministers  in  the  eastern  part  of  Massachusetts,  such  was  the 
prominence  and  influence  of  the  Northampton  minister  that  his  views 
were  widely  accepted  in  Connecticut  and  Western  Massachusetts. 

From  this  town  there  went  forth  those  influences,  between  1672 
and  1729,  which  undermined  church  discipline,  removed  all  barriers 
between  the  church  and  the  world,  and  opened  the  way  for  uncon- 
verted men  into  the  Christian  ministry.  Notwithstanding  his  peculiar 
views  and  their  promulgation,  Mr.  Stoddard  was  an  earnest  Christian 
man  and  minister,  and  was  used  of  God  to  bless  the  people  of  his  parish. 
With  the  decay  of  piety  there  came  a  laxity  in  doctrine.  The  Pil- 
grims and  the  Puritans  were  Calvinists  of  the  old  type.  They  had 
accepted  the  interpretation  of  divine  truth  given  to  the  world  by  Cal- 
vin of  Geneva  and  Knox  of  Scotland.  Divine  sovereignty  and  the 
divine  decrees  were  for  them  the  Alpha  and  Omega  of  faith. 

During  the  ministry  of  Mr.  Stoddard  in  this  town  the  position 
of  the  Calvinists  was  being  assailed  both  in  England  and  the  colonies. 
The  controversy  was  becoming  quite  sharp,  when,  in  1727,  Jonathan 
Edwards  came  to  be  the  colleague  of  his  grandfather  in  the  pastorate 
of  the  church  in  Northampton.  The  defenders  of  Calvinism  in  Eng- 
land were  Watts  and  Doddridge.  Neither  of  them  proved  ec[ual  to 
the  task,  and  it  seemed  as  if  Calvinism  would  be  swept  from  the  field. 
Then  it  was  that  Jonathan  Edwards  changed  the  character  of  the  con- 
troversy by  assailing  the  position  of  the  opponents  of  Calvinism.  His 
two  great  productions,  "Original  Sin,"  and  "The  Freedom  of  the 
Human  Will,"  in  the  judgment  of  those  competent  to  express  an  opin- 
ion, remain  unanswered  to  this  day.  Edwards  maintained,  against  the 
assailants  of  Calvinism,  that  man  manifests  an  inclination  to  evil; 
this  he  called  moral  inability.  Against  the  older  Calvinists  he  main- 
tained that  man  has  reason  to  discern  the  good,  affection  to  love  it, 
and  will  to  perform  it;  this  he  called  man's  natural  ability.  Out  of 
this  view  springs  the  teaching  that  has  become  so  common,  that  men 
may  become  Christians  if  they  will.  This  underlies  the  burden  of 
the  preacher's  message  throughout  the  English-speaking  world  today. 

The  truths  formulated  here  in  Northampton  and  unfolded  by  Pres- 
ident Edw^ards  the  younger,  by  Timothy  Dwight  and  others,  constitute 
what  has  come  to  be  regarded  as  a  modified  Calvinism. 

The  writings  of  Edwards  were  widely  read  in  England.  They  fell 
into  the  hands  of  Andrew  Fuller,  who  recognized  their  original  and  pro- 
found thought,  and  their  reverence  for  the  Word  of  God.  His  own 
theology  was  moulded  by  them.  And  Fuller's  theology  supplanted  all 
others  in  the   Baptist  schools  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.     It  gave 


122 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


new  life  to  the  churches,  awakened  a  profound  enthusiasm  for  mission- 
ary endeavor,  and  imparted  a  marvelous  impulse  to  Baptist  principles, 
which  during  the  last  seventy-five  years  have  made  such  great  progress, 
bringing  the  denomination  to  the  front  rank  as  an  evangelistic  and 
missionary  body;  and  Fuller's  theology  resulted  from  a  study  of  Jon- 
athan Edwards'  works  and  his  Bible. 


The  musical  selections  for  the  service  follow: 

Prelude;      "  Largo  Cantabile," 

Anthem:      "Jerusalem,  My  Glorious  Home." 

Anthem:      "Sherburne." 

Offertory:     "Stille  Gluck," 

Postlude:      "  Fanfare  Joyeuse," 


Haydn 


Weissenhorn 
Clarke 


SECOND      CONGREGATIONAL 
(UNITARIAN)     CHURCH    ^     3^ 


REV.   Frederick  H.  Kent,  the  pastor,  spoke  as  follows: 
"All  that   has  happened   among  mankind  has  arisen  from 
the  mutual  play  of  the  forces  within  them  and  the  forces  around 
them.     The  drama  of  the  ages  has  had  this  world  for  its  stage, 
and  our  race  for  its  actors,  and  could  not  have  remained  the  same  if 
either  had  been  different."     If,  in  this  statement  of  Dr.  Martineau's, 
we  substitute,  for  the  world,  this  beautiful  and  fertile  valley,  and  for 

the  race  that  tiny  fragment  of  humanity 
which  has  constituted  this  community,  we 
have  in  it  the  clue  to  the  significance  of 
this  anniversary.  Today  sums  up  the 
result  of  two  hundred  and  fiftv  vears  of 
such  interaction,  and,  examining  some  of 
the  influences  which  have  stimulated  and 
directed  the  efforts  of  our  predecessors 
through  those  3'ears,  we  may  discover 
something  of  the  divine  method  of 
moulding  human  character. 

The  physical  environment  of  this  com- 
munity has  had  some  clearlv  marked 
efl^ects  upon  its  character.  Through  its 
rare  natural  beauty  the  softer  influence  of 
nature  has  always  worked  silently,  touch- 
ing the  harsher  realities  of  life  and  the 
sterner  dogmas  of  religion  with  a  more 
genial  and  diviner  light.  Its  natural 
fertility  has  kept  at  a  distance  the 
extremes  of  poverty  and  misery.  But  there  are  more  specific  and 
peculiar  conditions.  The  early  records  of  the  town  abound  in  references 
to  "home-lots."  The  term  indicates  that  the  homes  of  the  settlers  were 
separated  from  the  scenes  of  their  daily  labor.  Their  farms  were  in 
the  meadows  which  sweep  in  a  huge  half -circle  about  the  central  hill, 
where  the  dwelling  places  were  gathered  in  a  compact  group.  The 
contour  of  the  region  made  it  possible  for  the  men  to  go  to  and  from  the 
fields  daily  without  excessive  loss  of  time,  while  morning  and  night  found 
them  in  close  and  familiar  association  with  each  other.  At  first  this 
was  valued  for  its  simplification  of  the  problem  of  defence.  But  it  had 
a  more  subtle  and  lasting  influence,  for  it  prevented  the  deadening  effect 
of  individual  isolation  from  touching  the  lives  of  these  men  and  women. 
There  was  constant  interchange  of  opinion,  clashing  of  wills,  measuring 
of  wit  and  power  and  persistence.  Under  such  conditions  men  developed 
that  intense  personality  which  is  the  secret  of  human  progress.  Doubt- 
less there  was  rancor,   and  some  bitter  animosities.     But  these   were 


Rev.  Frederick  H.  Kent 


124  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL   CELEBRATION 

balanced  by  growing  self-control  and  respect  for  sober  public  opinion, 
the  necessary  complement  of  vigorous  individuality  in  social  life.  And 
through  these  there  came  in  time  a  high  degree  of  concerted,  as  well  as 
individual,  efficiency,  of  which  the  fruits  are  all  about  us. 

Another  circumstance  co-operated  with  this  for  the  personal  and 
social  development  of  the  people.  The  community  was  separated 
from  others  by  the  difficulties  of  travel.  The  route  which  connected 
it  with  its  natural  point  of  contact  with  the  older  civilization,  ran  trans- 
versely to  the  natural  highways.  It  was  nearly  one  hundred  and  fifty 
years  after  the  settlement  before  a  regular  weekly  stage  to  Boston  was 
established.  In  conseciuence  of  these  conditions,  the  influence  of  the 
outer  world  was  limited  and  intermittent.  The  people  were  thrown 
upon  their  own  resources  for  the  supply  of  intellectual  needs.  They 
were  equal  to  the  test,  and  there  grew  up  here  a  culture,  necessarily 
somewhat  provincial  in  some  of  its  details,  yet  of  as  fine  a  quality  and 
vigorous  life  as  anv  which  was  brought  to  it  from  without.  Their 
isolation  proved  a  stimulus  to  the  development  of  that  spontaneous 
culture  which  is  alone  genuine  and  lasting.  Thus  the  local  conditions 
and  the  relation  of  the  place  to  the  larger  world  tended  to  promote  a 
society  infused  with  strong  individuality,  self-rehance,  and  mutual 
helpfulness,  with  all  the  strength  and  weakness  which  result  from  the 
close  contact  of  men  with  men. 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  such  conditions  might  have  produced  a 
very  different  result  with  different  men.  The  weak  and  inefficient 
might  well  have  grown  weaker  in  such  an  environment.  That  there 
was  power  of  brain  and  will  in  these  men  is  well  known  to  you  all.  I 
shall  make  no  personal  reference  in  alluding  to  its  signs,  but  seek  in  the 
corporate  acts  of  the  citizens  some  indications  of  their  inherent  traits. 
That  they  should  have  been  able  to  maintain  an  undivided  religious 
organization  for  170  years,  during  a  time  when  religious  controversy 
was  rife,  is  significant.  Yet,  though  the  outward  bond  was  unbroken 
until  this  society  was  organized  in  1825,  the  unity  of  the  spirit  was  often 
marred,  and  it  may  be  doubted  whether  the  formal  unity,  which  chafed 
so  harshly  sometimes,  was  as  conducive  to  genuine  Christian  brotherhood 
as  the  frankly  recognized  and  respected  differences  of  the  present  day. 

In  1662  the  town  voted  six  pounds  as  salary  to  the  first  school- 
master, on  condition  that  he  should  teach  school  at  least  six  months 
in  the  year.  It  is  a  far  cry  from  this  modest  sum  to  the  present  annual 
expenditure  of  the  city  for  the  education  of  its  children — a  contrast 
hardly  less  marked  than  that  between  the  numerous  and  well-equipped 
buildings,  of  which  this  room*  is  the  nucleus,  and  that  first  building 
"of  sawen  timber,  26  foot  long,  18  foot  wide,  and  9  foot  high  from  the 
lower  part  of  the  cell  to  the  upper  part  of  the  raisens,"  which  served  as 


*This  sermon  was  preached  in  the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  High  School,  which  was  occTi])ie(l  as  a 
l)hice  of  worship  by  the  Unitarian  Society  during  the  re-liuilding  of  its  churcli,  the  coiner  stone  of 
which  was  laid  during  the  celebration  of  the  2.50th  anniversary. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  125 

the  first  school-house,  church  and  town-house.  Yet  there  is  the  seed 
from  which  ah  this  grew. 

Another  quaint  record  reveals  a  struggle  between  the  instincts  of 
humanity  and  the  fear  that  the  town  might  be  burdened  with  the 
support  of  alien  paupers.  Concerning  one  Patrick,  who  was  sick,  the 
record  declares,  "Wee  agree  that  those  who  brought  him  into  the  town  be 
called  in  question  about  bringing  him  in,  but  also,  wee  order  that  he 
should  have  some  bedclothes  and  doe  intreat  Mrs.  Williams  to  entertain 
him  during  his  sickness,  at  the  expense  of  the  town."  This  is  probably 
the  first  instance  in  which  the  friendly  assistance  of  neighbors  was  inade- 
quate to  the  emergencies  of  sickness  and  poverty.  It  is  the  beginning, 
therefore,  of  the  organized  provision  for  the  sick  and  needy  which  is 
today  so  effective. 

It  would  be  possible  to  continue  almost  indefinitely  to  cull  from  the 
ancient  records,  illuminating  indications  of  the  character,  energy,  and 
temperament  of  the  forefathers.  But  enough  has  been  said  to  show 
the  sort  of  forces  that  were  at  work  here.  Yet  when  one  compares  the 
present  city  with  that  early  settlement,  and  traces  step  by  step  the  path 
by  which  the  change  has  come  about,  there  remains  a  feeling  of  wonder  and 
awe.  All  has  not  been  accounted  for.  There  has  been  a  unity,  a  move- 
ment in  a  single  upward  direction,  which  renders  all  the  twists  and 
turns  of  no  effect.  Not  one  of  the  men  who  acted  and,  by  his  action, 
influenced  the  advance,  had  any  perception  of  whither  it  was  tending. 
Each  contributed  what  was  in  him  to  give,  for  the  momentary  emer- 
gency or  need,  but  the  elements  were  so  varied,  often  so  apparently 
conflicting,  that  it  could  not  have  been  surprising  if  chaos  instead  of 
order,  retrogression  instead  of  progress,  had  resulted.  Undoubtedly  the 
directing  influences  acted  through  the  human  spirit  and  its  environment, 
yet  assuredly  they  did  not  originate  there.  Behind  was  the  creative 
purpose,  the  guiding  intelligence,  the  benevolent  wisdom  of  God,  har- 
monizing, unifying,  controlling.  Hardly  can  any  one  study  the  history 
of  such  a  community  as  this,  or  of  the  larger  community  of  which  it  is  a 
part,  without  perceiving  that  the  human  part  is  taken  up  and  included 
in  a  vaster  and  eternal  movement  whose  end  is  still  unknown.  And  if, 
in  the  study  of  such  history,  we  can  discern  the  human  part,  to  act 
bravely,  vigorously,  conscientiously,  giving  the  best  that  is  in  us,  and 
can  feel  not  less  certainly  that  the  divine  part  is  performed  unfailingly, 
and  can  learn  to  act  with  the  assurance  that  what  is  truly  human  finds 
its  place  in  the  divine  plan  and  so  becomes  itself  divine,  we  shall  have 
learned  the  deepest  lesson  which  history  has  to  teach. 


In  the  musical  services  of  this  church,  Director  A.  Locke  Norris 
was  assisted  by  Miss  Ruth  S.  Davis,  Miss  Laura  S.  Jones,  and  the  young 
people's  chorus.  Miss  Jones  rendered  the  Andante  Cantabile  by 
Tschaikowski,  and  Miss  Davis  sang  "Fear  ye  not,  0  Israel,"  by  Buck. 


EDWARDS     CONGREGATIONAL     CHURCH 


R 


EV.  Willis  H.  Butler,  pastor  of  the  Edwards  Church,  preached 
the  anniversary  sermon  at  the  morning  service.  He  said,  in 
part : 

The  first  settlers  of  the  valley  of  the  Connecticut  are  not 
as  famous  as  their  countrymen  who  landed  at  Plymouth  some  twenty- 
five  years  previous,  but  they  were  of  the  same  sturdy  stock.  There 
was  nothing  sentimental  connected  with  the  settlement  of  this  old  town. 

It  was  a  business  enterprise,  but  it  requires 
no  less  courage  to  go  to  China  as  a  commer- 
cial traveler  than  it  does  to  go  as  a  mission- 
ary of  the  gospel.  In  a  quiet  and  orderly 
way,  which  differed  little  from  that  followed 
by  other  settlements  of  the  period,  there  came 
into  existence  another  of  those  centers  of 
influence  entitled  to  that  name  so  full  of 
rich  suggestions,  "A  New  England  Town." 
These  forefathers  of  ours  were  laboring 
men.  They  were  idealists  of  the  sublimest 
sort,  but  that  did  not  prevent  their  taking  a 
very  real  interest  in  crops  and  cloth.  All 
the  people  were  farmers.  Even  the  minister 
supplemented  his  allowance  by  tilling  the 
soil.  They  worked  with  their  heads  as  well 
as  with  their  hands,  and  the  church  provid- 
ed the  intellectual  stimulus.  Northampton 
seems  to  have  been  conspicuous  for  its  interest  in  the  cause  of  religion, 
and  on  this  the  first  day  of  our  anniversary  observances  it  is  fitting 
that  we  should  consider  the  contribution  which  the  church  has  made 
to  the  influence  which  the  town  exerted.  From  1658  to  1824  the 
church  was  served  by  five  remarkable  men,  and  the  names  of  Mather, 
Stoddard,  Edwards,  Hooker  and  Williams  ought  to  be  mentioned 
because  of  the  illustrious  service  which  they  rendered,  a  service  which 
did  more  to  make  the  town  famous  than  any  single  other  agency  during 
that  period.  It  was  during  the  ministry  of  the  mighty  Edwards  that 
a  movement  known  as  the  great  awakening  began.  It  swept  over 
New  England,  deepening  and  strengthening  the  religious  thought  and 
feeling  of  the  succeeding  century. 

All  the  labor  of  those  who  have  preceded  counts.  No  honest  work 
is  ever  in  vain.  We  cannot  help  being  benefited  by  the  struggles  of 
those  who  have  gone  before,  whether  it  be  in  the  life  of  the  family,  or  the 
town  or  the  nation,  but  the  amount  of  benefit  derived  depends  upon 
how  we  enter  into  these  struggles,  upon  how  we  carry  on  the  work  they 
began.  If  we  could  only  see  that  the  work  of  the  small  village  church 
counts  in  the  life  of  the  city  whither  its  youth  has  gone,  how  much  more 


Rev.  Willis  H.  Butler 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


127 


in  earnest  would  we  be  to  maintain  the  village  churches.  If  we  only 
had  the  vision  to  look  into  the  future,  see  how  each  honest  stroke  of 
work  is  bound  to  tell  in  the  improved  conditions  of  life,  how  much  more 
care  and  strength  would  be  put  into  those  strokes.  The  worker  may 
l)e  forgotten;  his  work  remains. 


The  musical  program  rendered  was  as  follows: 

Organ  Prelude:      "Pilgrims'  Chorus,"  Wagner 

Choir  Call:      "Far  from  Care  and  Distraction,"  Gounod 

Anthem:      "Thou,  O  Lord,  Art  Our  Father,"  Sullivan 

Offertory  Solo  for  Tenor:      "Be  Thou  Faithful  Unto  Death,"  MendclssoJin 

Organ  Postlude  in  D,  Tours 


FIRST      METHODIST      CHURCH 


REV.  Clement   E.  Holmes  of  the    Elm-Street    Methodist   Church 
took  for  his  theme,    "The    Building  of   the    City,"    which   was 
based   upon  three   passages    of    Scripture  —  Gen.  4:   17,  "And 
Cain  builded  a    city."      Heb.    11:   10,    "And  Abraham  looked 
for  a  city  which  hath  foundations,  whose  builder  and  maker  is  God." 
Ps.  87:  5,  "And  of  Zion  it  shall  be  said,  this  and  that  man  was  born 
in  her."     The  following  is  an  abstract  of  the  discourse: 

The  first  text  reveals  man's  original  impulse  to  build  a  city.     There 

have  been  two  dominant  motives  in  all  city 

_  ^rr:--ay,  buildiug.     Onc  is   found   in   the    advantages 

^^^^■^"*  "  "^  of  security  to  property    and   life   within   the 

^^^m'.a^tti^^  *^^^y  wall,  or  stockade  of  the  olden  time,   or 

jJHJI^'^'WH^^  under   the   police   protection    of    today;    the 

^^B  other  is  found  in  the  charms   of   a   compact 

jm      ^  "KK;   '^Iv        A      society.        Here     man's     social     nature     has 

^^^nt  3/  M     ^■ttained  its  highest  expression.     Accordingly 

^^^Hi'Hiifci         1  J    there  are  two  implications  of  this  text  which 

^^^^V<^feHH|f       '^HI     modern    thought    is    compelled    to    qualify. 

^^^^B|^^^^^v       ^^^     First,  it  takes  more  than  one  man  to  build  a 

^^^1^1  .^^^^..^'      city.     Such  an  achievement  is  the  product  of 

^m^  -A  ^^BBV       most   complex   forces.     Secondly,  we  should 

"^  ^^^^^        expect  in  the  natural  order  of  development 

that  the  nomadic  life  preceded  and  gradually 
led  up  to  the  closely  settled  life  of  a  com- 
munity. 

At  this,  our  Quarter-Millennial  Cele- 
bration, we  are  impressed  with  the  age  of 
om-  city,  compared  with  the  life  of  man  and  most  of  his  architectural 
works  in  this  new  land,  and  also  its  youth,  as  compared  with  Rome, 
Jerusalem  or  Pekin.  We  are  thus  forced  to  wonder  what  constitutes 
the  identity  of  this  strange  and  almost  immortal  thing  we  call 
a  city.  Upon  examination  it  seems  to  be  none  other  than  the 
unbroken  continuity  of  its  life  and  its  institutions.  We  celebrate  today 
not  because  man  first  made  his  abode  here,  for  the  red  man  had  been 
here  unnumbered  years  before,  but  because  the  white  man  had  first 
pitched  his  tents  here  250  years  ago.  It  was  the  incoming  of  a  new 
civilization.  This  portion  of  our  country  is  just  what  its  name  im- 
phes,  a  New  England.  Its  customs,  laws  and  language  were  all  im- 
ported.    Thus  we  got  our  city's  name  from  the  mother  land. 

The  three  distinctive  features  of  our  city  have  been  the  church, 
the  militia  and  the  schools.  The  church,  formally  organized  in  1661, 
is  the  oldest  existing  institution.  It  is  therefore  fitting  that  the  Cel- 
ebration begins  on  the  Sabbath  and  in  the  sanctuary.  Those  pioneers 
knew  that  it  took  more  than  men  to   build   a   city.      Therefore   they 


i 


Rev.  Clement  E.  Holmes 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  129 

sought  one  whose  builder  and  maker  is  God.  And  here,  too,  the  power 
of  the  Gospel  has  been  most  signally  manifested  in  the  conversion 
of  men.  The  first  militia  company  was  organized  the  same  year. 
Since  that  time  a  grand  total  of  1,472  soldiers  have  gone  forth  to  fight 
in  the  Colonial,  the  Revolutionary  and  Civil  wars.  The  armory,  there- 
fore, is  a  fitting  member  of  our  collection  of  public  buildings.  And 
two  years  later  the  first  school  was  organized,  whose  sessions  were 
held  in  the  town's  meeting  house. 

Our  third  text  suggests  that  it  takes  great  men  to  make  a  great 
city.  "And  of  Zion  it  shall  be  said  that  this  and  that  man  was  born 
in  her."  How  proud  we  are  to  point  to  the  names  of  Gov.  Caleb  Strong, 
Major  Joseph  Hawley,  Gen.  Seth  Pomerov,  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard; 
George  Kingsley,  our  celebrated  song  writer;  to  George  W.  Cable, 
our  widely  known  author;  to  President  L.  Clark  Seelye,  our  distin- 
guished educator,  and  can  I  not  say,  without  invidious  comparison, 
above  all,  to  Jonathan  Edwards,  our  one  national  character  whose  name 
has  found  a  place  in  the  Hall  of  Fame?  These  have  been  the  master 
builders  in  our  city's  life,  who  helped  to  guarantee  its  perpetuity  and 
lead  us  toward  the  ultimate  society  in  the  City  of  God. 


The  musical  service  at  this  church  included  the  rendition  of  Bruce 
Stearne's  "Great  is  the  Lord"  and  "Our  Land,  0  Lord,"  by  P.  A. 
Schnecker. 


S  T. 

M  A  RT'  S     [CATHOLIC]     CHURCH 

0  F 

THE     ASSUMPTION  3^     3.      S.      3^ 

REV.    Michael  J.  Welch,  assistant  pastor   at    St.   Mary's  Church, 
delivered  an  historical  discourse  at  the   10.30  mass.     He  took 
for  his  text.  Matt.  13:  31,  32.     He  said: 
Fitting  it  is  that  this  the  first  day  of  our  triduum  of  celebration 
be  dedicated  to  religious  exercises. 

Like  every  town  founded  by  the  pioneers  of  New  England,  North- 
ampton was  "first  cradled  in  the  bosom  of  God."  The  church  occu- 
pied the  foremost  place  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  people.     The 

story  of  the    church   in    Northampton    is 
practically  the  history  of  this  fair  city. 

Well  may  her  citizens,  be  their  de- 
nomination what  it  may,  rejoice  today 
while,  with  retrospective  vision,  they  sur- 
vey the  proud  history  of  this  munici- 
pality. In  age  she  ranks  with  the  oldest 
cities  and  towns  of  this  Republic.  Her 
beauty,  never  more  charming  than  in  the 
vernal  freshness  of  the  present  springtime, 
is  unsurpassed  in  all  the  broad  expanse 
and  varied  topography  of  our  wonderful 
country.  Her  sons,  ever  conspicuous 
among  the  leaders  of  the  commonwealth 
and  nation,  have  won  for  her  fair  brow 
the  laurels  of  fame,  the  nimbus  of  glory. 

We  Catholics  may  well  rejoice  at  the 
marvelous  growth  and  remarkable  achieve- 
ments of  Catholicity  within  this  city; 
and  between  the  pride  we  have  in  the 
progress  and  renown  of  our  city  and  the  joy  we  naturally  experience 
in  the  development  of  Catholicity  there  can  be  no  antagonism. 
Every  stride  in  the  progress  of  the  church  is  an  advance  in  the 
moral  and  social  scale  for  her  children,  for  the  city,  the  state  and  the 
nation;  for  the  better  Christian  a  man  is  the  more  desirable  citizen  he 
becomes — the  more  faithful  he  is  to  God  and  his  conscience,  the 
more  loyal  he  is  to  his  country  and  her  laws. 

Today,  as  we  gaze  upon  this  magnificent  temple,  its  grand  pro- 
portions, its  surpassing  location,  its  superb  beauty — when  we  call  to 
mind  that  this,  the  mother  church  of  CathoHcity  in  this  township,  is 
the  faithful  parent  of  eight  large  and  progressive  parishes  and  nine 
well-filled  churches — that  within  the  original  parish  limits  there  are 
living  today  more  than  15,000  Catholics — we  have  reason  to  rejoice. 
In  the  face  of  these  facts  one  would  be  led  to  surmise  that  the  presence 


Rev.  John   Kenny 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  131 


of  our  church,  dated  from  the  foundation  of  the  city,  that  the  most 
desirable  sites  both  for  church  and  school  within  the  limits  of  fair  North- 
ampton waited  on  our  selection,  and  that  the  early  members  of  this 
congregation  were  men  of  position,  influence  and  wealth.  How  con- 
tradictory the  reality ;  how  humble  the  beginning,  how  steep  and  rugged 
the  way,  how  arduous  the  struggle  in  the  olden  days !  No  living  tongue, 
no  human  language,  can  do  justice  to  the  endeavors,  the  striving,  the 
sacrifice,  the  hours  of  toil,  the  hearts'  blood,  demanded  and  joyfully 
offered  for  the  erection  of  the  first  Catholic  chapel  in  this  community. 
One  hundred  years  ago,  and  Northampton  was  then  an  old  town,  there 
was  not  a  Catholic  within  this  township.  Eight  and  ninetv  years  ago, 
when  Father  Cheverus — afterward  first  bishop  of  Boston — w^ho  died 
cardinal-archbishop  of  Bordeaux — came  here  from  Boston  to  admin- 
ister the  last  rites  of  Mother  Church  to  her  unfortunate  sons,  Halligan 
and  Daly — who,  as  it  was  afterward  discovered,  lost  their  lives  for  the 
crime  of  another — not  only  w^as  there  no  Catholic  to  receive  him,  but 
the  very  inns  of  the  village  refused  him  shelter.  Eight  and  ninety 
years  ago  this  very  day  they  died,  and  among  the  15,000  spectators 
assembled  on  Hospital  Hill  to  witness  their  execution  there  was  not 
one  Irishman  present  to  shed  a  tear  of  sorrow  and  svmpathy  for  his 
poor  countrymen,  or  pray  God's  mercy  upon  their  souls.  But  the  min- 
ister of  the  church  was  bv  their  side.  The  priest  of  God  had  heard 
their  far-off  call — onward  from  Boston  through  the  primeval  wilderness 
he  journeyed  that  he  might  attend  them  in  their  dying  moments.  Oh  ! 
even  under  the  sad  and,  if  vou  will,  humiliating,  incident  of  that  execu- 
tion, the  old  church  shines  forth  in  a  perfect  effulgence  of  glory  — 
"Mother  of  Mercies,"  "Refuge  of  Sinners,"  "Comfortrix  of  the  Afflict- 
ed." As  often  as  I  ascend  Hospital  Hill,  and  bring  to  mind  the  inci- 
dents of  that  execution,  the  15,000  morbidly,  curious,  unsympathetic, 
and  angry  multitude,  in  whose  midst  stood  the  two  condemned  and 
the  absolving  minister  of  God,  there  arises  before  my  vision  a  some- 
what similar  scene,  another  hill,  another  multitude,  another  execution 
— Calvary,  and  I  learn  anew  that  the  church  is  ever  the  same,  now  as 
then,  the  spirit  of  God's  mercv  ever  abiding  in  her,  the  mercy  of  the 
dying  Christ  to  the  penitent  thief  and  murderer. 

Not  until  1834  does  the  church  date  her  existence  in  Northampton. 
Some  time  within  that  year, in  the  little  home  of  John  Foley  at  "Straw 
Hollow,"  now  Leeds,  Father  Fitton,  in  the  presence  of  a  dozen  Irish 
exiles,  offered  up,  perhaps  for  the  first  time  within  the  limits  of  North- 
ampton, the  holy  sacrifice  of  the  mass. 

From  1834  till  1842,  at  intervals  ranging  from  six  weeks  to  four 
months,  he  visited  Northampton,  first  from  Hartford,  afterward  from 
Worcester.  From  '38  to  '42  mass  was  celebrated  either  at  "Pape 
Village,"  now  Bay  State,  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Hickey,  or  at  the  village 
center,  at  the  home  of  Mr.  Hayes.  In  the  minutes  of  the  old  Tem- 
perance society  of  July  4th,  '41,  is  recorded  the  purchase  of  the  King- 


132  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

street  lot  by  Father  Fitton  for  $385.  The  first  payment,  we  are  told, 
amounted  to  $180.  The  remainder  was  payable  Oct.  20,  1842.  In 
the  minutes  of  that  day  there  is  given  us  a  glimpse  of  their  joy  of  heart, 
and  lofty  motives  and  holy  zeal  that  prompted  their  sacrifices.  "There 
is  reason  for  rejoicing,"  writes  the  secretary.  "There  is  reason  for 
rejoicing  that  so  great  a  work  has  been  commenced  to  the  glory  of  God 
and  an  opportunity  afforded  for  laying  up  rich  treasures  in  heaven." 

In  1842  Father  Brady,  the  first  resident  pastor  of  Chicopee,  took 
charge  of  Northam])ton  as  one  of  his  missions.  At  once  he  set  to  work 
to  collect  funds  for  the  erection  of  a  church.  Services  now  were  held 
in  the  Canal  freight  depot,  now  church  property.  Here  also  was  held 
the  first  Catholic  Sunday  school.  Just  how  long  services  were  held 
there  cannot  be  ascertained,  but  not  till  Christmas  of  '45  was  the  little 
church  dedicated.  Bishop  Fenwick  of  Boston  officiated.  What  a  day 
of  rejoicing  and  consolation  that  Christmas  of  1845  niust  have  been. 
The  little  Catholic  community  had  now  a  church.  Eleven  years  of 
striving  and  planning,  eleven  years  of  common  sacrifices  and  endeavors, 
were  finally  crowned  with  success.  What  a  "Te  Deum"  of  thanks- 
giving must  have  ascended  to  high  heaven  on  that  Christmas  morn  ! 
How  fittingly  did  "Gloria  in  Excelsis  Deo,"  the  angel  song  of  the  first 
Christmas  morn,  now  chanted  for  the  first  time  within  this  section, 
how  fittingly  did  it  give  voice  to  their  unspeakable  gladness  of  heart 
and  gratitude  to  God  ! 

An  humble  wood  building  —  on  either  side  but  seven  pews,  the 
center  and  rear  left  pewless  that  it  might  accommodate  the  more. 
The  humble  dimensions  of  the  original  church  may  be  inferred  from 
the  fact  that  it  had  been  twice  enlarged  until  it  attained  the  proportion 
and  form  with  which  we  are  familiar. 

Not  until  1866  was  Northampton  made  a  parish.  In  January  of 
that  year  Father  Moyce  was  appointed  its  resident  pastor.  For  six 
years  he  labored  with  untiring  zeal  and  energy  within  this  territory. 
Not  only  did  he  enlarge  the  Northampton  church,  but  he  also  erected 
one  in  Easthampton,  another  in  Haydenville  and  still  another  in  Am- 
herst. 

Father  Moyce  was  succeeded  by  Father  Barry,  who  in  turn  also 
enlarged  the  old  church  on  King  street. 

But  so  rapidly  did  the  Catholic  body  increase  in  Northampton 
that  Father  Barry  recognized  the  need  of  a  much  larger  edifice,  and  to 
this  end  purchased  in  1873  the  magnificent  site  on  which  this  church 
and  the  parochial  residence  now  stand.  On  Aug.  14,  1881,  was  sol- 
emnly laid  the  corner-stone  of  this  edifice.  In  1884,  in  the  basement, 
was  celebrated  the  first  mass,  and  on  May  10,  1885,  this  church,  with 
the  exception  of  the  spires,  practicallv  as  we  behold  it  today,  beautiful 
in  symmetry,  perfect  in  embellishment,  replete  in  equipment,  was  ded- 
icated to  the  service  of  God.     In   1888  the  rectory  was  commenced, 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  133 

but  before  its  completion  God  called  Father  Barry  to  his  eternal  reward. 
He  died  April  17,  1S89. 

Were  this  an  occasion  to  eulogise  those  who  labored  among  you, 
we  might  justly  pause  and  consider  this  great  man's  words  and  works; 
but  this  is  not  such  an  occasion,  nor  needs  Father  Barrv  anv  enco- 
mium. Your  rectory,  this  enviable  site,  this  stately  temple  of  God, 
are  eternal  monuments  to  his  foresight,  energy  and  wisdom. 

On  the  first  day  of  May,  1889,  your  present  pastor,  the  friend  and 
confidant  of  Father  Barry,  succeeded  him  as  the  pastor  of  St.  Mary's. 
Shortly  after  his  coming  he  purchased  at  the  cost  of  $22,500  the  finest 
school  site  in  Northampton,  Shady  Lawn.  Ten  thousand  dollars  were 
expended  in  enlarging  the  convent  and  renovating  the  school.  This 
debt,  in  an  incredibly  short  time,  notwithstanding  the  large  increase 
in  the  running  expenses  of  the  parish,  he  lic^uidated. 

To  him  belongs  the  glory  of  the  first  Catholic  school  in  Northam})- 
ton — more  necessary  in  our  day  to  check  the  incursions  and  onslaughts 
of  scepticism,  agnosticism  and  irreligion  than  were  the  palisades  of  old 
to  protect  our  city  and  her  inhabitants  from  the  ravages  of  the  Red 
Men. 

His  next  work  was  the  completion  of  the  towers.  At  a  cost  of 
more  than  $7,000  he  caused  to  be  erected  the  twin  spires  that  so  giace- 
fully  taper  and  majestically  point  heavenward.  Crowned  with  the 
emblem  of  Christianity,  the  glory  of  Catholicitv,  Christ's  standard 
proudly  elevated  above  all  the  surrounding  countrv,  proclaiming 
Christ's  victory,  not  only  over  sin  and  death,  btit  his  triumph  also 
over  the  world,  over  the  hearts  and  minds  of  men,  over  the  enmity 
of  his  enemies,  over  the  power  of  his  persecutors,  teaching  men  the 
efficient  and  saving  principles  of  Christian  truth  and  morality,  their 
glittering  sheen  is  visible  throughout  the  broad  expanse  of  the  original 
parish,  and   15,000  Catholics  hail  them  with  reverence  and  delight. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  history  of  the  material  advance  of  Catholicity 
in  Northampton.  Your  property  today  is  estimated  at  more  than 
$150,000,  which,  thanks  to  your  generosity  and  your  pastor's  economy, 
is  entirely  freed  from  debt. 

During  these  sixty  yeais  from  the  founding  of  the  first  Catholic 
church  in  your  midst,  what  spiritual  blessings  it  has  brought  vou ! 
What  an  exercise  of  Christian  virtues  it  has  called  forth  among  vou  ! 
faith,  patience,  perseverance,  telling  the  deep  meaning  of  your  Catholic 
faith  and  the  daily  helpful  uses  that  it  offers  to  every  soul.  As  the 
stranger  from  almost  every  quarter  of  the  globe  unites  with  \'ou  be- 
fore the  same  altar,  to  worship  the  same  God,  to  participate  in  the 
same  ceremonies,  to  receive  the  same  sacraments,  what  a  growing 
sense  you  experience  of  the  universal  character,  the  historic  grandeur, 
the  undying  vitality,  of  the  Catholic  church! 

No  human  record  wnll  ever  tell  the  spiritual  blessings  that  have 
come  to  this  congregation  and  city  through  the  church  that  has  been 


134  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

so  imperfectly  sketched.  The  masses  offered,  the  sacraments  admin- 
istered— those  channels  of  grace  through  which  the  merits  of  Christ  are 
continually  communicated  to  men — the  marriages  blessed,  the  children 
taught  to  know  God  and  duty,  and  men  reclaimed  from  paths  of  vice  — 
all  these  are  the  spiritual  history  of  St.  Mary's  church.  It  is  inscribed 
in  the  Book  of  Life. 

There  is  still  another  history — that  of  poverty  unmerited,  of  trials, 
of  struggles,  obstacles,  yea.  even  of  hate;  but  it  is  buried  in  the  grave- 
yard beyond  the  hill.  The  tongues  that  could  relate  in  detail  and 
with    an    elocjuence    of   pathos    that    history  are  mouldered  into  dust. 

How  their  hearts  would  rejoice  today  were  they  the  proud  wit- 
nesses of  the  marvelous  growth,  advance,  and  achievements  of  their 
church  and  children  within  this  city,  from  a  position  of  insignificance 
to  a  position  of  influence,  from  weak  and  unseemly  elements  of  society, 
as  common  opinion  once  held  them,  into  the  foreinost  citizens  of  this 
commonwealth. 

The  children  of  the  farm  hand,  the  common  laborer,  of  fifty  years 
ago,  are  today,  thanks  to  the  opportunities  this  grand  Republic  of  ours 
offers  to  deserving  merit,  thanks  to  their  own  brawn  and  brain,  to  the 
Christian  virtues  early  inculcated,  they  are  today  the  busy,  thought- 
ful tradesmen,  the  stalwart,  intelligent  mechanics;  they  represent  and 
grace  every  profession;  they  are  to  be  found  in  all  the  walks  of  munici- 
pal life;  they  have  risen  to  the  highest  level,  the  highest  honor,  within 
the  gift  of  the  citizens  of  Northampton.  All  this  practically  within 
the  short  space  of  one  generation. 

Verily,  you  have  cause  to  be  glad  on  this  day  of  municipal  rejoicing 
and  consolation.  Your  past  history  is  glorious  in  progress  and  achieve- 
ment. Well  may  you  rejoice  in  the  broad  and  solid,  if  humble,  foun- 
dations of  Catholic  faith,  piety  and  devotion  inaugurated  by  your 
fathers.  But  be  not  satisfied  with  admiring  their  good  deeds  in  the 
past.  Strive  to  emulate  them  yourselves  in  the  present  and  future. 
In  the  perfection  to  which  you  have  brought  their  humble  beginnings, 
you  have  proved  that  the  spirit  of  your  fathers  abideth  in  you.  May 
it  ever  increase  and  be  forever  manifest.  Be  worthy  members  of  the 
Catholic  church,  whose  mission  in  this  Republic  is  essential  for  its 
stability,  necessary  for  the  true  enlightenment  of  her  citizens,  and  for 
the  purification,  uplifting  and  sanctification  of  her  children.  Wha.t 
this  city  and  nation  demand  of  you  is  that  you  be  men  in  every  sense 
of  the  word — men  of  upright,  Godly,  pure  lives.  Christians,  Catholics 
not  in  name  only,  but  in  truth  and  deed.  Upon  such  citizens  are  they 
ready  to  bestow  their  dearest  charge,  their  honor. 

May  our  progress  and  achievements  continue.  And  may  God 
bless  our  fair  citv. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


135 


The  musical  program  for  the  day  follows: 


Junior  Cboic— S  a.  m. 


^as6— 10.30 


Prelude, 

Kyrie, 

Gloria, 

Offertory  Solo, 

Sanctus, 

Adagio, 

Agnus  Dei, 

Anthem:      "Praise  the  Lord," 

Taiiiihauscr 
Marche  Triumphale,  Ciniarosa 

Organist,  Miss  Mamie  Peia 


Havens 

Mozart 
Cone one 

Detliier 
Concone 

Dubois 
Bordcse 


Prelude, 

Kyrie, 

Gloria, 

Credo, 

Offertory: 

Sanctus, 

Agnus  Dei, 

postlude, 


Heller 

Millard 
Millard 
Millard 
Violin  and  Organ,  Bendel 
Millard 
Millard 
Dubois 


Organist,  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Bartley 


IDespers— 3  ©'clock 


DOMINE, 

Ro%ewig 

Dixit  Dominus, 

Rosewig 

Confitebor, 

Fisk 

Beatus, 

Fisk 

Laudate  Pueri, 

Fisk 

Laudate  Dominus, 

Stearns 

Magnificat, 

Fisk 

0  Salutaris, 

Weise 

Tantum  Ergo, 

Wiesand 

Organist,  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  Bartley 


^450 


FLORENCE     CONG  REG AT  ION  AL     CHURCH 


,^^*t*^- 


AT    the    Florence    Congregational    Church   the    pastor,    Rev.    S. 
Allen  Barrett,  conducted  the  services,  reading  for  the  Scripture 
lesson,    Deut.  30:1-20.     The   venerable  pastor  emeritus,    Rev. 
Elisha   G.   Cobb,   who  for  thirty-five  years   had    gone    in    and 
out    among    this    people    as    their  teacher  and  leader,  was  invited  to 
address  his  old  congregation  this  day  and  did  so.     Mr.  Cobb  gave  as 
his   theme,  "Northampton,   a    Pleasant   City  in  which   to    Live."     He 

showed  this,  first,  by  describing  the 
natural  scenery  of  this  part  of  the  Con- 
necticut valley,  and  said  it  was  a  favor 
to  be  permitted  to  live  amid  such  sur- 
roundings. This  city  is  characterized, 
also,  bv  a  progressive  conservatism. 

For  two  hundred   years  we  were  only 

J       .,  j         an  agricultural  town.     The  meadow  lands 

\^^^^L  produced  bountifully.     The   necessities  of 

'^^^^^Kr  Sifti  i^f^    were    abundant    and     luxuries     little 

^^^^H  ^Wm  thought  of.     Such  a  people  learn   to   pro- 

^^^^B  ;^  duce  everything  they  want  among  them- 

^^^^m      '*lii^^'  selves    and    are    always   conservative.      It 

^IIHfc  -i^^^  became  a  proverb  among  us  that  if  a  man 

""^^     ''  owned   a   strip   of  meadow  land,  belonged 

Ki  V.  Elisha  g.  Cobb  ^o  the  First  church  and  bought  his  clothes 

of    Deacon    Daniel     Kingsley,    he    would 
surelv     go     to     heaven     when      he      died. 
Some   others   might  get  there,   but  these 
would  go  more  direct. 

Several  times  in  our  history,  ardent, 
impetuous  people  have  called  the  old  town 
slow  and  illiberal,  but  we  have  come  into 
possession  of  excellent  railroad  facilities, 
water,  sewer  and  lighting  systems,  libra- 
ries, educational  and  charitable  institu- 
tions, without  expensive  mistakes,  which 
a  more  headlong  policv  would  have  in- 
curred. 

Northampton  has  been  particulaily 
liberal  towards  education  and  religion. 
Very  few  cities,  large  or  small,  represent 
so  large  an  element  of  intelligent  organized 
scepticism  as  we  have  had  in  our  little 
city.  I  have  had  a  good  deal  of  obser- 
vation and  experience  and  am  sure  that  rev.  s.  Allrn  Barrett 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  137 


our  churches  are  larger,  stronger,  more  intelHgent  and  influential  be- 
cause of  the  buffeting  they  have  had.  Exercise  develops  strength  and 
a  reasonable  Christian  faith  has  nothing  to  fear  from  the  severest  tests. 

The  schools  of  Northampton  have  increased  in  their  annual  ex- 
pense from  $14,000  in  1867,  to  $80,000  in  1903.  Half  of  our  twentv- 
one  school-houses  are  new,  modern  and  substantial,  and  are  housing 
3,000  children.  Some  think  that  our  expense  for  schools  is  too  great 
and  increases  too  fast.  If  it  should  become  necessary  to  cut  down 
our  school  expense,  the  place  to  begin  is  at  the  top;  that  is,  with  the 
superintendent  and  department  supervisors.  Good  teachers  make  good 
schools  and  work  better  if  not  supervised  too  closely  and  too  much. 

These  characteristics  of  our  city,  its  beautiful  situation,  its  con- 
servative liberality  towards  everything  that  tends  to  the  impiovement 
of  the  people,  its  general  atmosphere  of  liberty,  order,  intelligence  and 
thrift,  make  it  a  good  place  in  which  to  live. 

The  fact  that  we  are  celebrating  our  two  hundred  and  fifty  years 
of  life  and  growth  should  have  a  beneficial  effect.  It  will  help  us  to 
know  our  own  history  better,  and  every  future  grows  out  of  a  past. 
It  will  help  us  to  plan  and  conduct  our  affairs  better.  Better  than 
our  fathers  and  mothers  did,  when  the  wages  of  a  hired  man  were  ten 
dollars  a  month  and  grog. 

It  will  help  us  to  see  that  what  we  do  for  honesty,  virtue,  edu- 
cation and  religion  in  ourselves,  our  homes  and  communities,  helps 
our  city.  The  city  is  as  its  people.  Cities  and  nations  that  have 
perished  have  done  so  through  bad  morals  and  vicious  conduct.  To 
believe  in  Divine  Providence  and  co-operate  with  Him  reverently, 
righteously,  faithfully  and  perse veringly,  will  work  out  our  own  in- 
dividual salvation  and  clothe  our  city  with  a  glory  that  will  excel  the 
past. 


The  church  was  decorated  with  a  fine  arrangement  of  flowers  and 
flags,  and  the  music  was  by  the  choir,  reinforced  by  about  a  dozen  of 
its  former  members,  who  sang  with  fine  effect  one  of  the  old-time  an- 
thems. Prof.  A.  M.  Fletcher  presided  at  the  organ  with  his  usual 
taste  and  vigor,  and  all  the  music  under  his  direction  was  of  the  high- 
est order. 


FREE    CONGREGATIONAL    CHURCH, 
F  LO  R  ENC  E  S.  S. 


REV.  Alfred  Free  spoke  at  the  morning  service  upon  the 
subject,  "QuaUties  that  Go  to  Making  up  of  Worthy  History." 
His  conclusions  were,  in  brief,  as  follows: 

"Beneath  the  surface  of  the  social  life  today  lie  the  vices 
and  the  virtues  of  the  past.  As  in  the  great  forests  the  trees  are 
rooted  in  a  soil  formed  largely  of  the  decomposed  tissues  of  other 
forests  that  once  grew  in  their  places,  so  we  may  find  the  roots  of  this 
day's  life  of  the  community  or   state    deep    down    amid  the   dust   and 

decay  of  past  generations.  The  growth 
today  is  nourished  upon  the  past;  it 
springs  from  it  and  is  sustained  by  it. 
The  industry,  the  heroism,  the  virtue,  the 
nobility,  of  the  people  now  living  were 
made  possible  by  the  people  who  lived 
centuiies  ago.  We  may  think  of  these  as 
mouldering  under  ground,  in  undisturbed 
peace  and  safety,  never  again  to  put 
forth  bud  and  leaf  of  promise,  or  fruitage 
of  noble  deed;  but,  in  fact,  all  that  is  to- 
day springs  from  these  and  sustains  vital 
relations  with  what  we  sometimes  call 
the  dead  past." 

The  speaker  then  sketched  briefly  the 
early  settlement  of  the  Connecticut  valley, 
and  discussed  the  qualities  of  our  ancestors 
which  enabled  them  to  produce  the  worthy 
history  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  years 
which  underlies  our  present  social  life. 
These  qualities  were  industry,  sobriety,  simplicity  of  life,  and  religion. 
These  points  were  considered  in  the  order  given.  Of  religion  he  said: 
Theirs  was  a  strenuous  effort  to  adjust  life  to  its  environment.  Our 
fathers  believed  in  an  ultimate  purpose  in  creation,  and  back  of  that 
purpose  a  Purposer.  The  greatest  faith  is  not  afraid  to  trust  reason 
and  truth,  trust  God  and  Man.  In  some  respects  the  men  of  the  past 
had  less  faith  than  we  of  today.  They  sought  to  bind  the  religiotis 
beliefs  of  their  time  upon  the  future,  and  in  this  wa}-  prevent  possible 
changes  in  the  established  cieeds.  But  the  new  astronomy,  geology, 
evolution,  and  historic  criticism  opened  the  mind  to  larger  thoughts  upon 
the  great  c^uestions  of  religion,  until  it  became  evident  to  thinkers  that 
the  old  teaching  must  give  place  to  views  more  in  harmony  with  the 
larger  knowledge  of  the  new  age.  Those  who  were  afraid  to  trust  reason 
and  truth  felt  that  the  only  safe  way  was  to  stand  by  the  old  doctrines, 


Rev.  Alfred  Free 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  139 


in  which  most  of  them  sincerely  believed.  But  those  who  had  more 
open  vision  saw  clearly  and  felt  deeply  the  heavy  and  needless  burdens 
such  doctrines  placed  upon  reason  and  faith.  What  were  these  men 
of  open,  honest  minds  and  hearts  to  do?  They  must  be  true  to  them- 
selves. The  difficulties  that  stood  in  their  way  opposed  themselves 
to  others  also.  They  must  be  true  to  the  public.  But  to  teach  the 
truth  as  they  saw  it  was  to  bring  trouble  upon  themselves  and  the 
church.  It  meant  leaving  or  being  forced  out  from  the  old  religious 
home  in  which  they  had  been  bred.  The  inherited  spirit  of  freedom 
must  prevail. 

The  world  has  moved  forward.  Throughout  the  English-speaking 
world  the  larger  vision  and  catholicity  of  these  later  years  the  lines  of 
separation  are  less  marked.     There  is  a  reawakening  spirit  of  amitv. 


Musical  selections  were  rendered  at  this  service  by  a  double  quar- 
tette consisting  of  Mrs.  W.  A.  Metcalf  and  Miss  Helen  F.  Schadee, 
sopranos;  Miss  Alice  Cary  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Graves,  altos;  John  C. 
Facey  and  Kirk  Stone,  Jr.,  tenors;  and  Herbert  T.  Kelley  and  C.  Pres- 
ton Otis,  bassos.  These  sung  anthems  and  Messrs.  Facev  and  Kellev 
sang  a  duet. 


FLORENCE     METHODIST     CHURCH 


A 


T  the  Florence  Methodist  Church  Rev.  Herbert  G.  Buckingham 
preached  Sunday  morning,  taking  for  his  theme,  "  Rchgious 
Thought  and  Life  for  250  Years:  Some  Contrasts."  His 
generahzations  were  upon  the  following  lines : 

Two  hundred  and  fiftv  years  in  the  history  of  the  world  is  a  brief 
space,  but  a  long  time  in  the  history  of  a  community.  It  is  fitting  we 
^•ause  and  observe  so  important  an  event.  The  new  world  was  sparsely 
settled   250  years  ago,   and  the  red  man  was  little  disturbed.     There 

were  no  roads,  no  bridges;  no  factory 
whistles  awakened  the  echoes  of  this 
peaceful  valley,  but  the  religious  con- 
trasts, not  the  material,  are  our  theme 
today.  Those  were  the  days  just  preced- 
ing Cromwell's  death  and  bigotry  was 
rampant.  No  sooner  was  the  house  of 
Stuart  restored,  than  those  who  did  not 
conform  to  the  Anglican  church  were 
outside  the  pale.  On  St.  Bartholomew's 
day  2,000  ministers  were  ejected  from 
their  pulpits.  John  Bunyan  was  languish- 
ing in  jail.  In  France  the  profligate  Louis 
XIV  was  exterminating  the  Huguenots. 
On  these  shores  William  Penn  and  Roger 
Williams  were  struggling  for  religious 
liberty. 

Reputed  witches  were  burned  at  the 
stake.  The  white  man  was  well  entered 
upon  his  work  of  debasing  both  the  red 
the  one  with  the  bondage  of  drink,  and  the 
other  with  the  bondage  of  toil.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago  but 
few  if  any  had  caught  the  inspiration  of  the  Master's  last  commission 
for  the  evangelization  of  the  world.  To  almost  all  classes  the  Bible 
was  a  sealed  book.  Anglicans  and  Presbyterians  may  yet  disagree,  but 
they  do  not  butcher  each  other.  There  is  still  wide  cleavage  between 
Protestants  and  Romanists,  but  fires  are  no  longer  kept  to  dispose  of 
heretics.  The  battles  fought  by  Roger  W^illiams  and  William  Penn  have 
been  won  for  all  time.  The  golden  age  has  not  come  respecting  morals 
and  the  spiritual  life,  but  the  present  is  an  infinite  improvement  upon 
250  years  ago.  The  Bible  is  in  every  home,  and  the  armies  of  Christ 
are  winning  victories  in  every  land.  What  of  the  future?  What  will 
250  years  bring  to  pass?  May  we  not  hope  that  the  last  battle  among 
nations  will  have  been  fought;  the  last  saloon,  brewery  and  distillery 
will  have  been  closed;  every  legalized  avenue  to  destruction  hedged 
up ;  one  universal  church?  May  our  beloved  city,  as  she  goes  on  toward 
her  half-millennial  milestone,  increase  in  all  those  virtues  which  make 
for  the  i)eace  of  the  municipality  and  the  commonwealth  ! 


Rev.  Herbert  G.  Buckingham 


man  and  the  black  man- 


CHURCH  OF  THE  ANNUNCIATION,  FLORENCE 


R 


EV.  Patrick  H.  Gallen,  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Annuncia- 
tion at  Florence,  preached  at  the  10.30  mass  Sunday  morning, 
and  drew  some  striking  and  important  conclusions,  which  are 
briefly   summed   up  as  follows: 

We  are  proud  of  our  splendid  city  and  of  its  history.  In  the 
olden  time  the  Puritans  builded  on  a  sure  foundation,  since  religion 
and  righteousness  were  the  controlling  influences  of  their  lives,  both 
public   and   private.      If  God   was  less   a   father  than  a   stern  master, 

their  conception  led  to  a  more  severe  idea 
of  duty.  Dark  and  sombre  it  made  their 
lives,  but  their  self-denial  called  forth  a 
power  over  themselves  that  made  them 
subordinate  to  high  and  noble  purpose. 
They  were  well  adapted,  those  settlers  of 
early  days,  to  meet  the  conditions  of  a 
warring  existence.  By  eonciuering  them- 
selves they  acquired  that  indomitable 
force  of  character  which  enabled  them  to 
cope  successfully  wdth  a  wnly  Indian  foe 
and  master  even  nature  herself  in  the 
battle  for  subsistence.  But  when  happier 
conditions  came  and  extraordinary  efforts 
were  no  longer  called  for,  the  world's 
advance  along  the  lines  of  making  life 
more  endurable  and  less  penitential  was 
not  acceptable  to  the  Puritan.  His  Cal- 
vinism, a  most  severe  interpretation,  had 
to  give  way  before  the  modern  belief  in  the  joyousness  of  life.  Little  by 
little  the  old  order  changed,  until  today  the  children  of  the  old  settlers 
are  apologizing  for  the  peculiarities  of  their  beloved  ancestors.  In 
our  churches  there  is  nothing  to  remind  us  that  the  arts  and  theology 
were  ever  at  variance.  Our  endowed  theatre  is  a  rebuke  to  the  earlv 
aides  of  morality.  The  education  of  females,  once  thought  to  be  of 
no  account  whatever,  is  now  the  first  industry  of  our  city.  But  most 
wonderful  of  all  things  that  have  come  to  pass  in  Northampton,  the 
Pope  of  Rome  is  the  spiritual  father  of  the  major  part  of  our  church- 
going  population.  These  things  may  not  be  unmixed  blessings,  still, 
unless  our  reading  of  old  churches  has  been  at  fault,  there  is  today  in 
our  beloved  city,  more  than  ever  in  the  olden  days,  a  freedom  and 
joyousness  in  living,  more  pleasures  for  the  people  and  a  better  appre- 
ciation of  esthetic  means  for  the  production  of  well-ordered  happiness. 
*     *     *     fiiQ  American  of  today  is  a  blend  of  many  races.     He  will 


Rev.  Patrick  H.  Gallen 


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dominate  wherever  crowds  gather  during  our  Anniversary  Celebra- 
tion. We  have  heard  our  orators  declare  on  public  occasions  that 
we  were  assimilating  the  foreign  population.  Perhaps  they  were  mis- 
taken. The  national  powers  of  digestion  are  limited.  Slowly  but 
surely  statistics  show  that  the  older  American  race  is  passing  away 
forever.  Unless  stimulated  by  admixture  of  other  races  they  are  des- 
tined, these  children  of  the  Puritans,  to  gradual  but  complete  extinc- 
tion. It  is  the  one  sad  note  that  forces  itself  upon  us  during  these 
joyous  days. 

The  newer  peoples,  the  Irish,  Canadian  and  Polish,  seem  des- 
tined to  inherit  our  splendid  national  patrimony.  They  will  soon 
become  fused  into  an  American  type.  They  will  love  and  cherish  our 
institutions,  and,  if  need  be,  die  in  defense  of  our  flag  and  our  common 
and  beloved  country. 


The  following  musical  program  was  rendered : 

Organ  Prelude, 

asperges, 

Kyrie, 

Gloria, 

Credo, 

Traumeri;     Violin  and  Organ, 

Sanctus, 

Agnus  Dei, 

Postlude:      "Gloria,"  Violin  and  Organ, 


Wagner 

Sicg 

Loesch 

Loesch 

Eiving 

Schumann 

Mozart 

Gregorian 

Mozart 


CHURCH     OF     THE     SCARED     HEART 


THE  Celebration  was  hailed  with  joy  by  all,  probably,  but  by 
none  more  than  by  the  French  Canadian  people  of  the  Sacred 
Heart  parish,  for  it  is  in  this  beautiful  city  they  have  taken 
up  their  abode  and  made  homes  which  have  now  become  almost 
as  dear  to  them  as  those  which  they  quitted  so  regretfully  on 
leaving  their  own  dear  country.  At  the  solemn  services  held  on 
Anniversary  Sunday,  in  the  Sacred  Heart  church,   a  large  and  devout 

congregation  assisted  the  societies  of   St. 

Joseph,    St.    John    the    Baptist,    and    the 

^||fl||^|.  Sacred  Heart  Cadets,  the  latter  appearing 

§  ^  ii^   fi^l^    uniform,   enhanced  by  their  pres- 

f  >a  ifel  ence  the  enthusiasm  of  the  occasion.     It 

was  to  these  societies  in  particular  the 
sermon  was  addressed,  of  which  the  fol- 
lowing is  a  brief  summary: 

"On  this  first  day  of  the  Anniversary 
Celebration  of  this  beautiful  city,  I  am 
most  happy  to  see  our  Catholic  societies 
assembled  here  to  thank  God  for  the 
favors  of  the  past  and  to  ask  for  a  con- 
tinuance of  the  same. 

"Adopted   children   of   the   American 
Republic,    citizens   of  this   charming  city, 
you  have  today  done  your  duty  as  Chris- 
tians.    Continue  to  show  your  loyalty   and   fidelity  to  your  country, 
not  onlv  during  this  time  of  festivitv,  but  the   whole   course   of  your 
lives."  ' 


'S 


♦•* 


Rev.  Noel  Rainville 


The  musical  program  rendered  was: 


Old  Hundred,  -with  Organ  and  Violin 
Bordellaise  Mass 
Kyrie 

Gloria 

Credo 

Offertory,  "O  Salutaris" 
Sanctus 

Aenus  Dei 


CHURCH    OF    THE    BLESSED    SACRAMENT 


A 


T  the  Church  of  the  Blessed  Sacrament  Rev.  Thomas  P.  Lucey 
preached  at  both  the  morning  services  on  "The   250   Years  of 
Northampton    History."       He    spoke    forcibly    of    the    early 
struggles  of    the  people  —  the  early  settlers  —  how   they  sur- 
mounted all  obstacles,  such  as  the  attacks  of   Indians,  the   difficulties 
of   travel   and   the  general  hindrances  to  progress  of  that  time.     Con- 
tinuing,   he    spoke    of    the    material    progress    and    advancement    in 

religious  and  social  life  the  last  century. 
He  said  that  the  gratitude  we  owe  to 
God  for  the  many  manifestations  of  His 
love  towards  the  town  should  be  fervent 
and  broad.  There  are  few  towns  that 
have  received  more  gifts  from  her  grateful 
children,  in  the  way  of  public  institutions, 
both  religious  and  educational.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  that  our  people  will  prove  them- 
selves worthy  of  all  their  advantages,  and 
do  all  in  their  power,  by  noble  lives,  to 
add  to  the  future  greatness  of  the  city. 


Rev.  Thomas  P.  Lucey 


A  special  program  of  music  was  ren- 
dered by  the    choir,  and  the  church  was 
beautifully  decorated  by  the  people  of  the  parish. 


The  musical  selections  were: 

Prelude:     Organ. 

Anthem:      "Great  is  the  Lord," 

Offertory:      Organ,  "Adoration," 

Anthem:      "Our  Land,  O  Lord," 

Postlude:      March  from  "Athalie." 

Mendelssohn. 


B.  Stcanie 

A.  Can! 

Scliuccker 


POLISH     ROMAN     CATHOLIC     CHURCH 


EVEN  the  newest  church  in  town,  the  Roman  Cathohc  Church 
of  St.  John  of  Cantius,  did  not  allow  the  day  to  pass 
unnoticed.     Only  one   service   was   held,  that    in   the  morning 

— the  regular  10.30  mass,  but  this  was 
held  in  the  Home  Culture  Clubs'  hall, 
the  church  on  Prospect  street  not  then 
being  opened. 

A  large  congregation  gathered,  and  the 
pastor.  Rev.  Peter  C.  Reding,  preached  a 
discourse  calculated  to  rouse  the  latest- 
arrived  race  in  this  land  of  liberty  to 
the  value  of  republican  institutions.  He 
contrasted  the  condition  of  the  Polish 
people  the  last  two  hundred  and  fifty 
years  with  the  people  here,  and  showed 
how,  with  study  and  education  and  the 
liberal  institutions  afforded  to  all,  by  the 
government  of  this  country,  the  Polish 
people  might  in  time  hope  to  emulate 
the  achievements  of  all  civilized  lands. 

The  achievements  of  the  people  of  Ancient  Poland  were  not 
forgotten,  and  the  services  of  the  best  Polish  talent  were  properly 
acknowledged,  the  whole  being  declared  still  greater  cause  for  emu- 
lation by  the  Polish  people  on  this  comparatively  new  soil. 

The  music  was  impressive  and  befitting  the  occasion,  though  no 
special  program  had  been  arranged. 


Rev.   Peter  C.   Reuing 


THE      SERVICE      OF      SONG 


SUNDAY       EVENING 


FOLLOWING  the   church   services   of  the  morning,  people   gen- 
erally   dispersed   to    their   homes,    and   in   the   afternoon   there 
were  heavy  showers,  which  seemed  to  bode  ill  for  the  Service  of 
Song,  at  the  anniversary  tent,  in  the  evening,  but  with  twilight 
hours    clearing    skies    came    again,    and   large   crowds  of   people   of   all 
religious  denominations  began  to  wend  their  way  towards  the  Pavilion 
on  the  Forbes  Library  grounds.     The  tent  was  cjuickly  filled  with  an 

audience  of  about  2,000,  and  it  was 
estimated  that  as  many  more  stood  out- 
side, and  listened  and  heard  for  the 
most  part,  while  probably  as  many  turn- 
ed back,  disappointed  at  not  being  able 
to  approach  within  hearing  distance. 
From  this  it  seems  evident  that  a  tent 
holding  from  8,000  to  10,000  people  would 
have  been  none  too  large  for  the  occasion. 
But  this,  unfortunately,  could  not  be 
obtained  in  time. 


Prof.  Euwin   B.  Story 


The  people  of  this  city  have  come, 
naturally  and  edticationally,  by  the  love 
for  music  which  has  so  long  distinguished 
them.  Amid  the  great  wealth  of  beauty  which  nature  bountifully 
provided  for  old  Northampton,  its  awe-inspiring  mountains,  its 
forest-clad  hills,  its  beautiful  glades,  brooks,  rivers,  lakes;  its  com- 
manding hills  within  the  village  limits,  affording  charming  vistas  made 
famous  in  history,  and  its  great  undulating  alluvial  meadows,  wondrous 
in  their  ever  changing  beauties,  it  is  natural  that  there  should  have 
sprung  up  with  the  people  a  love  of  art,  and  that  among  these  emotion- 
ally inspiring  scenes  music- should  flourish.  So  it  was,  and  is  today. 
The  Meadow  City  has  always  fostered  this  art  educationally  as  well;  in 
the  earlier  times  with  the  singing  school  and  later  in  the  established 
work  of  instruction  in  the  public  schools  by  Prof.  Henry  Jones,  and  in 
after  years  by  Ralph  L.  Baldwin,  to  practical  perfection.     Then  there 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  147 


was  the  development  of  the  local  bands  and  the  fostering  influences  of 
music  in  the  homes  of  the  people.  Speaking  of  more  specific  work,  the 
Choral  Union,  whose  splendid  concerts  and  oratorio  productions  are  still 
longingly  remembered  by  the  older  residents,  should  not  be  forgotten. 
And  those  living  who  heard  and  saw,  can  never  forget  the  famous  con- 
certs given  by  Jenny  Lind  and  the  first  amateur  production  of  "II 
Trovatore,"  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Thomas  W.  Meekins.  Then 
later  came  the  famous  Apollo  Club,  under  Dr.  Meekins'  leadership,  and 
the  city  was  not  ashamed  of  the  Doctor's  son,  Thomas,  now  living  in 
New  York,  when  he  stood  up  as  a  successful  director  of  a  local  com- 
panv  of  musicians  in  the  rendition  of  the  opera  "Pinafore."  Of  recent 
years  there  has  been  much  activity  in  music,  with  the  concerts  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Smith  College  music  department,  the  growth  and  de- 
velopment of  music  in  the  churches,  with  many  excellent  productions 
of  great  masterpieces,  manv  organ  recitals;  and  the  artistic  concerts  of 
the  Northampton  Vocal  Club  under  the  direction  of  Ralph  L.  Baldwin. 

So  it  is  natural  that  the  art  of  music  should  have  received  imme- 
diate attention  and  have  been  given  due  prominence  in  plans  for  the 
250th  celebration,  not  only  upon  Anniversary  Sunday,  but  the  other 
two  days  of  the  Celebration,  as  will  be  seen  in  the  reports  following. 
The  committee  on  music,  whose  composition  is  elsewhere  announced, 
gave  the  very  best  support  and  embellishment  to  the  pleasure  of  those 
memorable  days. 

When  the  Service  of  Song  began,  in  the  Anniversarv  tent,  at  eight 
o'clock,  the  scene  was  an  impressive  one.  The  platform  was  occupied 
by  a  chorus  of  about  200  voices,  made  up  largelv  of  church  choir  mem- 
bers and  the  Northampton  Vocal  Club,  and  in  front  of  the  chorus  was 
the  large  orchestra  of  local  musicians.  The  service  was  under  the 
direction  of  Prof.  Edwin  B.  Story  of  the  music  department  of  Smith 
College  and  for  many  years  organist  and  choir  leader  at  the  Edwards 
church.  The  program  was  of  a  varied  and  pleasing  character  and 
introduced  many  of  the  church  organists  and  choir  soloists  of  the  town^ 
as  follows: 

1.  Orchestral  Prelude  :      "  Gloria  in  Excelsis,"  Mozart 

THE    ORCHESTR.\ 

2.  Favorite  Tunes  of  our  Forefathers: 

*Majesty  (Billings  iy46-iSoo) ;  ^Sherburne  (Read  i/j/-?): 
Invitation  (Kimball  1/61-1S26) . 

THE    CHORUS    AND   ORCHESTRA 


*These  tunes  were  sung  in  the  "  Old  Cliurcli,"  at  a  concert  given  on  Jan.  S,  1854. 


148  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

3.  Tenor  Solo:      "Come  unto  Me,"  with  Violin  and  Pianoforte, 

H.  N.  Bartlett 

MR.   ROY   W.    STEELE,   MISSES   LAURA   S.   JONES,   ELIZABETH   HICKEY 

4.  Quartet:      "O  Coine,  Every  One  That  Thirsteth,"  with  Pianoforte, 

Alendelssohn 

MISS    MARJORIE   W     CLIFFORD,   MRS.   CHARLES   B.    KINGSLEY, 

MESSRS.   FRANK  M.   READIO,   EDWARD   M.   MEEKINS, 

MISS   CLARA   G.   LORD 

5.  Soprano  Solo:      "Salve  Regina,"  with  Violin  and  Pianoforte, 

Henshaw  Dana 
(Violin  obligato,  written  by  Miss  Anna  L.  Kidder) 

MISS   MARY   FITZPATRICK,   MESSRS.   OSCAR  N.   FIELD,   ALFRED   M.    FLETCHER 

6.  Chorus  with  Trio:      "The  Heavens  are  Telling,"  Haydn 

MISS    CAROLINE    L.    BENWAY,    MESSRS.    CHARLES    L.    SAUTER,    MORTIMER    D.    MAY'NARD, 
THE  CHORUS,  ORCHESTRA,  MESSRS.  C.  MILTON  KINNEY,  CHARLES  C.  CHASE 

7.  Trio  for  two  Tenors  and  Bass,  "  Tantum  ergo,"  Rossini 

MESSRS.    CHARLES    H.    READIO,    FRANK    M.    READIO,    ALBERT    E      BROWN 

S.      Contralto  Solo:      "O  Divine  Redeemer,"  with  Violin  and  Pianoforte, 

Gounod 

MISS    M.    LOUISE    WEATHERBEE,    MR.    HARRY    F.    BARRETT,    MISS    LOUISE    A.    SCHADEE 

9.     Male  Choruses:     "God's  Glory  in  Nature,"  Beethoven 

"  Into  the  Silent  Land,"  Arthur  Foote 

THE      NORTHAMPTON      VOCAL     CLUB,      MR.      RALPH      L.      BALDWIN,      DIRECTOR 

10.  Two   Hymn   Tunes:      "Ware"   and   "Ferguson"   for  the   Congregation, 

with  Organ,  George  Kingslcy  {NortJianipton  1S11-1SS4) 

THE    congregation    (standing),    chorus,    orchestra, 

MISS   ELIZABETH   BARTLEY 

11.  Chorus:      "Thou,  O  Lord,  art  our  Father,"  Arthur  Sullivan 

THE     chorus,     ORCHESTRA,     MESSRS.     ALBERT     L.     NORRIS,     ALEXANDER    P.     COUTURE 

Particularization  in  review  of  the  solo  and  chorus  work  would 
hardly  be  expected  in  a  work  of  this  kind,  yet  it  should  be  mentioned 
that  the  chorus  sang  with  remarkable  precision  of  attack  and  shading, 
considering  the  short  time  allowed  for  organization  and  preparation, 
and  the  effect  was  gratifying  and  inspiring.  The  solos  were  all  ade- 
quately rendered  and  the  service  was  one  that  was  dignified,  altogether 
fitting  and  memorable.  The  audience  fully  realized  that  it  was  a 
service  of  song,  not  a  concert,  and  properly  refrained  from  applause, 
but  the  rendition  of  the  favorite  tunes  of  the  forefathers,  "Majesty," 
"Sherburne"  and  "Invitation,"  was  observed  with  unusual  interest 
by  most  of  the  assembly,  owing  to  the  traditions  of  their  composition 
and  their  old-time  popularity.  These  old  tunes  were  rendered  with 
such  skill  and  fervent  power  as  brought  vividly  to  mind  the  early  days 
of  the  town  and  colonies,  when  the  three  tunes  were  sung  everywhere. 
To  the  younger  portion  of  the  assembly  the  staid,  stately  measures 
and  majestic  strains  were  a  revelation  of  the  changes  which  have  taken 
place   in  religious  music  within   a   hundred   years. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  149 


The  Northampton  Vocal  Club  was  gladly  welcomed  when  it  came 
to  render  the  ninth  number  on  the  program,  and  the  audience  took 
an  active  part  with  the  chorus  and  orchestra  when  George  Kingsley's 
tunes  were  reached.  Many  hearts  were  stirred  as  thev  never  were 
before  and  given  a  spiritual  u])lift,  through  the  deep  emotions  which 
surged  over  the  soul  and  brought  thoughts  too  powerful  to  be  uttered. 
The  chorus  and  orchestral  work  for  Sullivan's  "Thou,  O  Lord,  art 
our  Father,"  which  followed,  was  a  fitting  benediction  and  finale  to 
the   service. 

After  the  service  the  crowd  in  the  tent  joined  the  throng  on  the 
street,  admiring  the  illuminations,  but  before  eleven  o'clock  the  people 
were  for  the  most  part  again  gathered  at  their  homes,  and  the 
first  day  of    the  Celebration  soon  closed. 

In  this  concert  the  church  choirs  of  the  city  were  represented, 
as  follows:  First  church,  Ralph  L.  Baldwin,  director;  Edwards  church, 
Edwin  B.  Story,  director;  Baptist  church,  Raymond  B.  Harris,  di- 
rector; Methodist  church,  C.  Milton  Kinney,  director;  Episcopal  church, 
Charles  C.  Chase,  director;  St.  Mary's  church,  Miss  Elizabeth  Bartley, 
director;  Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  Alexander  P.  Couture,  director; 
Church  of  the  Blessed  Sacrament,  Miss  Mary  Kiely,  director;  Florence 
Congregational  church,  Alfred  M.  Fletcher,  director;  Florence  Meth- 
odist church,  Mrs.  James  W.  Lee,  director;  Church  of  the  Annuncia- 
tion, Florence,  Miss  Elizabeth  Hickev,  director. 


The  orchestra  was  constituted  as  follows: 

Violins:  First,  Misses  Rebecca.  Wilder  Holmes,  Helen  A.  Boynton, 
Laura  S.  Jones,  Helen  Warner,  Messrs.  Oscar  X.  Field,  Edward  A. 
RusHFORD,  Harry  F.  Barrett,  Philip  G.  Parenteau.  Second,  Messrs. 
Frank  D.  R.  Warner,  James  W.  Connelly.  Charles  D.  Jackson,  Frank 

DONAIS. 

Violas:     Messrs.  Albert  N.  Baldwin,  John  F.  Genung. 
'Cellos:     Messrs.  Fred  L.  Clark,  Harry  W.  Kidder. 
Basses:     Messrs.  George  F.  Seidell,  Milton  O.  Wickes. 
Flute:     Mr.  Fred  Kinney. 

Clarinets:     Messrs.  Michael  Slater,  Charles  A.  Hupfer. 
Cornets:     Messrs.  Fred  W.  Stearns.  Charles  A.  Wheeler. 
Trombone:      Mr.  Frank  J.  Lizotte. 


This  is  the  Paradise  of  America. —  Jenny  Lind,  while  viewing  the  land- 
scape froni  Round  Hill. 

The  main  street  of  Norwood  was  irregular,  steadily  seeking  higher  ground 
to  its  extreme  western  liinit.  It  would  have  had  no  claims  to  beauty  had  it  not 
been  rich  in  the  peculiar  glory  of  New  England  —  its  elm  trees.  .  .  .  The  elm.s  of 
New  England  !  They  are  as  much  a  part  of  her  beauty  as  the  columns  of  the  Par- 
thenon were  the  glory  of  its  architecture. 

Henry  Ward  Beecher  in  "Norwood." 


It  was  this  union  of  seclusion  and  publicity  that  made  Norwood  a  place  of 
favorite  resort,  through  the  summer,  of  artists,  of  languid  scholars  and  of  persons 
of  quiet  tastes.  There  was  company  for  all  that  shunned  solitude,  and  solitude 
for  all  that  were  weary  of  company.  Each  house  was  secluded  from  its  neighbor. 
Yards  and  gardens  full  of  trees  and  shrubbery,  the  streets  lined  with  venerable 
trees,  gave  the  town  at  a  little  distance  the  appearance  of  having  been  built  in 
an  orchard  or  a  forest  park.  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 


What  a  field  for  inspiration!  Here  is  the  Connecticut  valley,  seajned  and 
dimpled  with  many  a  fantastic  cicatrice  of  the  flood's  caprice,  overgrown  with 
tanglewood  of  trees  and  clambering  vines,  with  opens  of  meadow  land,  in  varie- 
gated green,  sloping  gradually  towards  the  shining  river,  a  silver  baldric,  framed 
with  osier  and  water  maples.  Roundabout  are  the  sociable  hills,  huddling  around 
each  lowland  landscape,  detaining  the  morning  mist  to  give  its  mirage-like  effect 
to  the  sunrise,  while,  like  an  illuminated  banner,  they  hold  above  the  twilight 
vales  the  last  rays  of  the  sun.  Artist  John  P.  Davis,  of  New  York. 


How  a  man  could  live  there  and  ever  get  his  eyes  to  the  ground,   I   cannot 
imagine.  Beecher's  "Norwood." 

Scenes  must  be  beautiful  which,  daily  viewed, 
Please  daily,  and  whose  novelty  survives 
Long  knowledge  and  the  scrutiny  of  years. 

Cowper. 


M    O   N    D   A  Y  S^  S   K   C   O   N  D      DAY 

RINGING  OF  BELLS  AND  FIRING  OF  SALUTES 

MONDAY  morning  was  the  first  secular  day  of  the  Celebration, 
and  the  sky  was  dark  and  threatening  when  Luke  Day,  keeper 
of  the  city  lockup,  loaded  the  cannon  belonging  to  the  late 
Waldo  H.  Whitconib,  at  the  rear  of  the  Forbes  Library  lot.  This 
old  fieldpiece,  which  had  done  duty  on  many  public  occasions  of 
rejoicing,  never  was  heard  to  better  advantage.  The  sun  was  scheduled 
to  rise  at  4.20,  but  it  did  not  put  in  an  appearance  on  account  of  the 
lowery  sky.  Ordinarily  a  sunrise  salute  calls  for  but  one  gun,  but  this 
was  an  important  occasion,  and  Governor  Bates  had  particularly  re- 
quested that  more  should  be  fired,  so  that  he  could  be  thoroughly 
and  earlv  roused  for  the  pleasures  of  the  day,  and  tw^enty-one  guns 
were  therefore  fired.  As  the  first  gun  was  heard,  the  bells  of  four 
churches,  with  the  high  school  and  college  bells,  chimed  in  merrily, 
and  the  Meadow  City  made  an  official  recognition  of  the  great  Cele- 
bration and  its  250th  birthday.  The  cannon  firing  and  bell  ringing 
occupied  about  twenty  minutes,  and  then  Chairman  John  P.  Thompson, 
of  the  Committee  on  Salutes,  telephoned  to  Round  Hill,  inc^uiring  if 
the  Governor  was  awakened.  He  received  a  hearty  affirmative  reply 
from  the  Governor,  and  the  equally  early  rousement  of  the  citizens  and 
their  presence  on  the  streets  showed  that  they  also  were  alive  to  the 
importance  of  the  day. 

The  First  church  bell  was  rung  by  Andrew  P.  Hancock,  the  Ed- 
wards church  bv  Arthur  Green,  the  St.  John's  church  by  James  Good- 
win, the  Methodist  church  by  Clifford  Smith,  the  college  bell  by  Jan- 
itor John  Doleman,  and  the  high  school  bell  by  Janitor  Darwin  C. 
Robbins. 

At  10.20  o'clock  Mr.  Day,  in  the  presence  of  a  small  army  of  boys, 
began  firing  the  salute  to  the  Governor,  fifteen  guns  being  called  for 
this  time,  and  these  also  signalizing  the  gathering  of  the  citizens  for 
the  first  formal  and  official  exercises  of  the  Celebration  in  the  Acad- 
emy of  Music,  which  began  at  10.30  o'clock.  For  the  information  of 
future  generations  it  may  be  stated  that,  in  firing  the  salutes,  Mr.  Day 
used  about  a  pound  and  a  quarter  of  powder  for  each  shot,  and  about 
fifteen  dollars  was  expended  in  this  service. 


EXERCISES  IN  THE   ylCADEMT  OF  MUSIC 

ADDRESS    OF   WELCOME    5)"  PRESIDENT  L.  CLARK    SEELYE 
AND    ORATION    BY    EX-GOVERNOR     JOHN     D.    LONG 

THE  Academy  of  Music  was  filled  to  the  doors  with  the  first 
secular  assembly  of  the  week,  and  the  scene  was  an  impress- 
ive one.  On  the  stage  were  the  following  well-known  people: 
Judge  Wilham  P.  Strickland,  Judge  William  G.  Bassett,  Judge 
John  W.  Mason,  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  T.  Rose,  Rev.  Wilhs  H.  Butler,  Rev. 
Lyman  P.  Powell,  Rev.  Frederick  H.  Kent,  Rev.  John  C.  Breaker,  Rev. 
Alfred  Free,  Rev.  Clement  E.  Holmes,  Rev.  Gerald  Stanley  Lee,  Rev.  S. 
Allen  Barrett,  Rev.  Herbert  G.  Buckingham,  Rev.  Fathers  John 
Kenny,  Michael  J.  Welch,  Noel  Rainville,  Timothy  J.  Fitzgerald, 
and  Thomas  P.  Luce}^  and  Rev.  Robert  M.  Woods  of  Hatfield,  Dr. 
Christopher  Seymour,  Dr.  Elmer  H.  Copeland,  Prof.  Isaac  Bridgman, 
Prof.  John  T.  Stoddard,  Prof.  A.  P.  Dennis,  ex-Mayors  John  L.  Mather, 
Henry  P.  Field,  and  Arthur  Watson,  Postmaster  Louis  L.  Campbell, 
City  Clerk  Egbert  I.  Clapp,  A.  Lyman  Williston,  George  W.  Cable, 
Capt.  Richard  W.  Irwin,  Sidney  E.  Bridgman,  Oscar  Edwards,  Robert 
E.  Edwards,  Christopher  Clarke,  Henry  R.  Hinckley,  Oliver  Walker, 
Merritt  Clark,  John  C.  Hammond,  Timothy  G.  Spaulding,  Henry  S. 
Gere,  Luther  J.  Warner,  Albert  E.  Brown,  Calvin  Coolidge,  George  D. 
Clark,  Charles  N.  Fitts,  Superintendent  of  Schools  Jacob  H.  Carfrey, 
Charles  N.  Clark,  Chauncey  H.  Pierce,  John  L.  Warner,  William  A. 
Bailey,  Harry  E.  Bicknell,  Walter  L.  Stevens,  Myron  L.  Kidder, 
George  L.  Spear,  James  H.  Searle,  George  L.  Wright,  Peter  Sobotky, 
Frank  N.  Look,  Homer  C.  BHss,  Thomas  A.  Orcutt,  Wilham  MacKenzie, 
Prof.  James  Mills  Peirce  of  Harvard  University,  Prof.  Lorenzo  Sears 
of  Brown  University,  Col.  Joseph  B.  Parsons,  Isaac  S.  Parsons  and 
Frank  B.  Parsons  of  Boston,  Josiah  S.  Tappan  of  Boston,  Edward  C. 
Bodman  and  George  A.  Wells  of  New  York,  Stephen  S.  Taft  of 
Springfield,  Lyman  N.  Clark  of  Westfield,  Major  Charles  S.  Shattuck 
of  Hatfield. 

The  interior  of  the  Academy  was  decorated  as  well  as  the  exte- 
rior, and  the  Governor's  wife  and  wives  of  the  Governor's  Council  oc- 
cupied seats  in  the  boxes  and  were  the  objects  of  much  attention. 

Mayor  Henry  C.  Hallett  presided  by  virtue  of  his  office,  and  on 
his  right  sat  President  L-  Clark  Seelye  and  Hon.  John  D.  Long,  with 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  153 


Rev.  Dr.  Henry  T.  Rose  and  Alderman  Samuel  S.  Campion  of  North- 
ampton, England,  on  the  left.  Back  of  these  were  the  members  of 
the  Governor's  Council  and  his  executive  and  private  secretaries.  The 
members  of  the  city  government  were  also  on  the  stage,  with  the  Exec- 
utive and  Finance  Committee  of  the  Celebration. 

The  exercises  opened  with  the  singing  of  "To  Thee,  O  Country," 
by  the  Smith  College  Glee  Club,  and  the  young  women  aroused  great 
enthusiasm  b}"  their  spirited  music.  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  T.  Rose  offered 
prayer,  and  after  two  selections  by  the  glee  club,  "Voices  of  the 
Woods"  and  "Should  Auld  Acquaintance  be  Forgot,"  President 
Seelye  w^as  introduced  and  gave  the  opening  address.  The  eloquent 
periods  of  this  favorite  home  orator  thrilled  the  audience  and  brought 
forth   loud    applause.- 

Upon  the  conclusion  of  Dr.  Seelye's  address,  Hon.  John  D.  Long, 
ex-Governor  of  Massachusetts  and  ex-Secretary  of  the  Navy,  was  in- 
troduced and  made  the  oration  of  the  day.  The  exercises  closed  with 
the  singing  of  "America"  by  the  glee  club,  the  audience  joining. 


PRESIDENT      S  E  E  L  r  E  '  S      ADDRESS 


L.     Clark     Seel\e,     LL.  D. 

Your  Excellency,  the  Governor;  Your  Honor,  the   Mayor;   Friends  and 

Fclloiv  Citizens  of  Northampton. — 

ALL  over  the  earth,  in  various  languages,  by  a  common  con- 
sciousness of  fitness,  men  have  spoken  of  the  City  as  feminine, 
and  under  the  svmbol  of  motherhood  have  signified  her  re- 
lation to  her  citizens.  From  infancy  to  old  age  they  are  under 
her  fostering  care.  Their  health  depends  upon  her  sanitary  regulations ; 
their  wealth  upon  the  work  she  offers  and  the  industry  she  encourages; 
their  manners  upon  her  refinement ;  their  intelligence  upon  her  schools  ; 
their  moral  character  upon  her  ethical  standards;  their  faith  upon  her 
reverence  for  God;  their  liberty  upon  the  laws  she  enacts  and  enforces. 
From  their  political  mother  men  acquire  their  best  possessions.  She  is 
the  medium  through  which  they  gain  their  first  knowledge  of  Nature, 
of  man  and  of  God.  In  her  embrace  they  awake  to  a  sense  of  love, 
and  there  they  first  learn  the  mystery  of  sorrow  and  of  death — the  joy 
and  the  gain  of  disinterested  public  service.  She,  in  turn,  acquires 
vital  strength  and  increase  from  their  fidelity  and  attainments.  When 
they  die  she  continues  to  voice  their  affection  and  to  execute  their 
will,  and  the  high  ideals  which  they  were  too  weak  or  short-lived  to 
realize,  she  perpetuates  as  accomplished  facts,  and  as  incentives  to 
higher  attainments.  Her  vigor  need  not  be  diminished  by  the  lapse  of 
centuries,  and  the  passing  generations  may  augment  her  resources. 
The  City  is,  therefore,  permanently  associated  with  the  most  fecund 
and  precious  experiences  of  human  life. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  155 

It  is  bv  virtue  of  these  associations,  if  I  inter])ret  rightly  the  signifi- 
cance of  this  festival,  that  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Northampton 
gather  from  near  and  from  far  to  congratulate  their  political  mother  on 
her  250th  birthday  and  to  wish  her  many  happy  returns  of  this  joyous 
anniversary. 

How  different  the  scenes  which  greet  us  from  those  which  greeted 
her  infancy!  Above  are  the  same  heavens;  the  same  majestic  river  flows 
through  the  meadows;  our  horizon  is  bounded  by  the  same  picturesque 
mountain  ranges;  but  how  changed  the  inhabitants  and  their  environ- 
ment! No  longer  unbroken  forests  stretch  as  far  as  the  eye  can  reach, 
concealing  in  their  unexplored  recesses  wild  beasts  and  savages ;  no  longer 
men  fear  lest  a  sudden  Indian  raid  may  massacre  the  few  inhabitants 
and  blot  out  the  infant  settlement.  All  the  perils  and  privations  of  that 
primeval  wilderness  have  passed  away.  In  place  of  a  rude  and  contract- 
ed society,  we  behold  a  prosperous  and  highly  civilized  community,  where 
men  enjoy,  without  molestation,  the  rich  fruits  of  past  and  present  in- 
dustry, and  where  they  find  almost  unlimited  opportunities  for  mental 
and  spiritual  growth.  With  no  trace  of  her  early  barrenness  and  poverty, 
decked  with  banners — emblems  alike  of  her  conflicts  and  victories,  and 
of  the  varied  nationalities  which  have  contributed  to  her  composite  life, 
—  the  City  of  Northampton  today,  like  a  benignant  mother,  receives 
from  thousands  of  those  whom  she  has  blessed,  the  testimony  of  their 
gratitude  and  affection.  In  her  name,  I  am  commissioned  to  welcome 
the  special  representatives  of  the  complex  agencies  to  which  she  is  most 
indebted  for  what  she  is,  and  for  what  she  has  been  able  to  accomplish. 

First  of  all,  she  would  welcome  His  Excellency,  the  Governor,  and 
the  honored  officials  of  the  Commonwealth, — whose  child  she  is,  to  whom 
she  has  ever  looked  for  protection,  whose  glory  she  reflects,  and  whom  it 
has  been  her  joy  to  serve  with  unwavering  loyalty.  Our  forefathers 
believed  in  the  State  as  a  divine  institution,  and  that  only  through  its 
organization  could  society  be  saved  from  anarchy  and  men  realize  their 
liberty.  They  accordingly  acknowledged  its  authority  in  all  their  trans- 
actions. 

Northampton's  history  begins  with  the  petition  of  the  first  settlers 
to  the  General  Court  for  leave  to  form  here  a  Township.  That  they  might 
have  a  legal  title  to  the  territory  they  occupied,  they  bought  the  land  of 
its  Indian  owners  instead  of  taking  it  by  superior  force,  and  ever  since 
that  petition  was  granted  and  the  deed  of  conveyance  signed  by  the 
Indian  sachems,  her  growth  has  been  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  the 
Commonwealth;  and  when  Massachusetts  became  an  integral  part  of 
the  United  States,  the  City  was  no  less  loyal  to  the  Nation,  and  contrib- 
uted her  quota  to  promote  the  growth  and  vigor  of  the  national  life. 

Recognizing  her  vital  dependence  for  whatever  she  possesses  or  has 
accomplished  upon  the  higher  sovereignty  of  the  state,  she  offers  at  this 
anniversary  her  most  respectful  salutations  to  the  official  representatives 
of  the  Commonwealth  and  of  the  Nation. 


156  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

The  first  civic  institution  in  Northampton  was  a  court  of  justice, 
estabhshed  only  a  few  months  after  her  settlement,  and  on  the  decisions 
of  that  court,  Northampton  has  constantly  relied  for  the  conviction  of 
criminals  and  for  the  adjudication  of  disputes.  Her  lawyers  earlv  be- 
came eminent.  From  their  ranks  have  been  chosen  judges  for  the  Su- 
perior Court,  and  also  those  who  have  filled  high  official  positions  in  the 
Commonwealth  and  in  the  United  States.  The  descendants  of  her  dis- 
tinguished jurists  and  you,  the  living  members  of  the  Bar,  who  worthily 
transmit  its  spirit  and  traditions,  the  City  also  welcomes,  gratefully  ac- 
knowledging the  measureless  influence  for  good,  which  has  been  exerted 
in  this  community  by  the  legal  profession,  in  advocating  the  claims  of 
law  and  in  securing  impartial  justice. 

Four  years  after  the  justice  came  the  minister,  and  seven  years  after 
the  court,  the  first  church  was  established.  The  historic  order  does  not 
indicate  the  relative  importance  of  these  institutions  in  the  minds  of  the 
early  settlers.  In  their  notion,  church  and  state  were  inseparable,  and 
the  God  they  worshiped  was  the  author  both  of  law  and  of  grace.  The 
first  public  edifice  was  called  the  meeting-house,  and  it  served  alike  the 
purposes  of  a  court  and  a  sanctuary.  Although  the  court  preceded  the 
church  historicallv,  religion  always  stood  first  in  the  estimation  of  our 
forefathers,  and  the  ministers  were  held  in  highest  esteem  among  public 
functionaries.  Particularly  favored  was  Northampton  in  her  early 
teachers.  They  commanded  both  the  reverence  and  the  respect  of  their 
parishioners  by  the  purity  and  uprightness  of  their  lives,  by  their  un- 
blemished character,  and  by  their  superior  intellectual  ability.  Men 
they  were  — 

"To  all  the  country  dear, 
And  passing  rich,  with  forty  pounds  a  year.  " 

The  third  minister  of  the  town,  Jonathan  Edwards,  who  succeeded 
his  grandfather,  won  an  international  reputation,  and  occupies  the  fore- 
most rank  among  American  clergymen.  More  than  2,000  descendants 
have  been  traced  to  him  alone,  the  majority  of  whom  have  ably  filled 
influential  positions.  Who  can  estimate  the  influence  of  these  godly 
men  in  exemplifying  the  high  ideals  of  life  which  they  proclaimed,  and 
in  their  intelligent  and  constant  interest  in  whatever  was  for  the  well- 
being  of  their  parishioners? 

Marvelous  have  been  the  changes  in  religious  creeds  and  practice 
since  the  organization  here  of  the  first  parish  and  church.  Until  last 
century  the  clergy  of  the  town  belonged  to  the  established  New  England 
church.  An  Episcopalian  or  a  Roman  Catholic  would  have  been  viewed 
with  about  as  much  aversion  as  an  Indian  prepared  for  a  war  dance. 
The  creed  of  the  City  now  is  neither  Protestant  nor  Roman  Catholic. 
Equal  privileges  and  equal  rights  are  given  to  all  religious  organizations, 
whatever  be  their  denominational  standard  or  their  ritual,  and  the  City 
cordially  welcomes  todav  all  religious  teachers,  whether  called  ministers, 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  157 

rectors,  priests  or  rabbis,  who  are  sincerely  seeking  to  help  men  to  wor- 
ship God  and  to  lead  pure  and  honored  lives;  for  on  the  righteous  char- 
acter of  its  citizens,  now  as  ever,  all  civic  prosperity  must  primarily 
depend. 

Next  to  the  jurist  and  the  minister  came  the  schoolmaster.  The 
same  rough  building  which  served  as  court-house  and  sanctuary  was  also 
the  school-house,  and  the  same  public  spirit  which  soon  provided  more 
suitable  buildings  for  court  and  church  has  provided,  from  generation  to 
generation,  ampler  facilities  for  education.  Some  of  the  most  noted 
school  teachers  of  the  land  have  made  their  reputation  here,  and  the 
beneficial  influence  of  their  training  has  been  felt  in  every  line  of  civic 
activity.  Although  we  have  passed  that  period  when  the  schoolmaster 
was  looked  upon  as  a  prodigy  of  learning, — 

"And  still  the  wonder  grew 
That  one  sinall  head  could  carry  all  he  knew," 

we  do  not  forget  that  this  wider  diffusion  of  knowledge  and  this  larger 
proportion  of  educated  men  and  women  are  due  in  a  great  measure  to  the 
scantily  paid  instructors  of  our  public  schools.  You,  faithful  men  and 
women  who  have  taught  the  boys  and  girls  to  use  their  brains  most 
effectively,  and  who,  working  for  small  pay,  have  greatly  increased  the 
value  of  every  citizen,  the  City  welcomes  today,  and  accords  a  high  place 
among  the  sources  of  her  strength. 

I  know  not  when  the  first  regular  physician  came  to  this  region.* 
I  imagine  the  sturdy  first  settlers  were  blessed  with  such  robust  consti- 
tutions that  they  rarely  needed  medical  aid,  or  if  they  needed  it,  they 
got  little  more  than  Nature  freely  gives.  Probably  two  centuries  and 
a  half  ago  a  sick  man  would  have  had,  ordinarily,  a  better  chance  for 
recovery  by  following  Nature's  suggestions  than  by  submitting  to  the 
treatment  which  medical  science  then  sanctioned.  But  competent  phy- 
sicians came  with  the  town's  larger  growth; — men  who  co-operated  with 
Nature  in  her  healing  process,  and  through  whose  intelligent  efforts  the 
most  prolific  sources  of  disease  have  been  removed.  Sanitary  regula- 
tions are  better  understood  and  enforced;  men  live  longer;  and  quacks 
and  c^uackery  have  become  disreputable.  In  no  profession  has  there 
been  greater  progress  than  in  medicine.  Never  were  physicians  so  well 
educated  nor  so  well  qualified  to  practice  the  healing  art.  In  the  name 
of  the  community  whom  they  and  their  predecessors  have  served,  the 
City  w^elcomes  her  physicians,  for  the  salutary  work  they  have  accom- 
plished. 

She  welcomes,  also,  her  living  heroes,  and  the  kindred  of  those  now 
dead  who  have  offered  their  lives  in  her  defense.  In  the  fierce  encoun- 
ters with  Indian  tribes,  in  the  merciless  French  and  Indian  wars,  in  the 


*  In  the  History  of  Northfield  it  is  said  that  Patience, —  the  wife  of  William  Miller,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Northampton, — "was  a  skillful  physician  and  surgeon  and  was  the  only  doctor  at  North- 
ampton during  the  first  two  settlements."  Probably,  however,  her  medical  kn<3wledge  was  no  more 
than  that  which  an  experienced  nurse  ordinarily  possesses. 


158  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

wars  with  England  for  national  independence,  in  the  fratricidal  struggle 
to  save  the  Federal  Union,  in  the  American  and  Spanish  wars,  the  sons 
of  Northampton  have  shown  their  loyalty  and  valor.  On  land  and 
sea,  as  private  soldiers  and  marines,  as  commissioned  officers  in  the 
varied  ranks  of  sergeant,  lieutenant,  captain,  colonel,  major,  general, 
admiral,  rear  admiral,  they  have  faced  death  without  flinching  in  the 
service  of  their  country,  and  have  won  for  Northampton  imperishable 
renown.  All  honor  to  the  brave  men  through  whose  patriotism  the  life 
of  the  citv  and  the  state  has  been  preserved ! 

The  City  welcomes,  also,  with  special  gratitude  and  pride,  the  ben- 
efactors who  have  founded  her  numerous  institutions.  I  know  no  citv 
in  the  world,  and  I  doubt  whether  one  can  be  found,  of  the  size  and 
wealth  of  Northampton,  which  has  been  the  recipient  of  such  varied 
and  costly  gifts  to  increase  the  enjoyment  and  intelligence  of  her  inhab- 
itants. Some  of  these  are  not  merely  local,  but  are  of  national  impor- 
tance, and  exercise  a  world-wide  beneficence.  They  are  largely  the  out- 
growth of  that  spirit  which  has  led  men  here  from  the  earliest  generations 
to  subordinate  their  private  interests  to  the  public  weal.  Thev  indicate 
also,  the  respect  and  confidence  with  which  the  City  has  been  regarded 
bv  those  living  outside  its  territorial  limits.  A  large  proportion  of  these 
gifts  have  come  from  unmarried  men,  who,  having  neither  wife  nor  chil- 
dren as  objects  of  their  affection,  have  bequeathed  their  wealth  to  the 
City  in  token  of  their  affectionate  regard. 

A  brief  enumeration  of  these  charities  will  show  how  remarkably 
Northampton  has  been  blessed  and  how  great  are  her  obligations. 

First,  there  is  the  Smith  Charities,  an  institution  founded  by  Oliver 
Smith,  a  bachelor  of  Hatfield — having  an  endowment  valued  at  about 
$1,200,000,  with  unique  provisions  —  for  gifts  to  young  ni'^n  and  women 
who  satisfactorily  complete  an  apprenticeship — -for  dowries  to  indigent 
and  worthy  young  women,  when  they  marry  men  of  good  character; — 
for  annuities  to  widows  with  dependent  children  —  and  for  a  cumulative 
fund  to  found  an  agricultural  college  in  the  year  1906. 

Then  there  is  the  Clarke  Library,  and  memorial  of  the  soldiers  who 
died  in  the  war  of  the  Union  —  founded  by  John  Clarke  and  other  cit- 
izens of  Northampton,  holding  real  estate  and  invested  funds  amounting 
to  $206,000. 

There  is  the  Clarke  School  for  the  Deaf,  established  also  by  John 
Clarke,  with  property  and  funds  valued  at  about  $500,000,  to  give  to 
niutes  the  power  of  speech. 

There  is  Smith  College — possessing  property  amounting  to  $2,200,- 
000,  to  which  its  founder.  Miss  Sophia  Smith,  bequeathed  the  bulk  of  her 
fortune,  and  to  which  many  other  citizens  of  Northampton  and  friends 
elsewhere  have  generously  contributed,  in  order  to  provide  for  young 
women  the  best  advantages  for  a  higher  education. 

There  is  the  Forbes  Library,  established  also  by  a  bachelor,  Charles 
E.    Forbes,    possessing  real   estate   and  invested   funds   amounting   to 


NORTHAMPTON.    MASSACHUSETTS  159 

8500,000,  the  income  of  8300,000  being  reserved  as  a  perpetual  fund 
for  the  purchase  of  books. 

In  connection  with  this  there  is  the  Earle  Fund  of  865,000,  estab- 
hshed  bv  Dr.  Phny  Earle,  also  a  bachelor,  to  aid  in  the  maintenance  of 
the  library. 

There  is  the  Dickinson  Hospital  —  founded  by  another  bachelor  of 
Hatfield,  Cooley  Dickinson,  with  a  fund  of  about  8150,000. 

There  is  the  Academy  of  Music  —  valued  at  8125,000.  the  gift  of 
Mr.  E.  H.  R.  Lyman,  that  the  citizens  of  Northampton  might  have  an 
attractive  and  convenient  place  for  the  best  class  of  entertainments. 

There  is  the  Florence  Kindergarten,  established  by  Mr.  Samuel  L. 
Hill,  and  enlarged  by  the  gifts  of  Mr.  Alfred  T.  Lilly,  with  property 
amounting  to  about  S300.000,  that  the  children  might  have  the  benefit 
of  kindergarten  training. 

There  is  the  Whiting  Street  Fund,  of  825,000,  the  gift  of  Whiting 
Street,  to  help  the  worthy  poor  who  are  not  paupers. 

There  is  the  Home  for  Aged  Women,  to  which  many  citizens  have 
contributed,  valued  at  825,000. 

There  is  the  Lilly  Library,  with  property  amounting  to  about 
Si8,ooo,  also  the  gift  of  Mr.  Alfred  T.  Lilly,  for  the  especial  convenience 
of  those  at  a  distance  from  the  other  libraries. 

There  is  the  Home  Culture  Club — the  generous  enterprise  of  Mr. 
George  W.  Cable — to  provide  for  those  w^ho  are  destitute  of  home  ad- 
vantages—  to  which  many  other  citizens  have  contributed,  and  which 
has  property  and  invested  funds  amounting  to  about  875,000. 

Then  there  is  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  possessing 
real  estate  and  funds  amounting  to  about  850,000  —  the  contribution 
of  many  benefactors,  although  largely  due  to  the  benevolence  of  Mr.  A. 
Lyman  Williston. 

To  these  varied  charities  —  amounting  to  nearly  85,000,000 — might 
be  added  8500,000  to  represent  gifts  in  church  edifices  and  8615,000  to 
represent  the  gift  of  the  State  in  the  Northampton  Lunatic  Hospital. 
What  other  city  of  its  size  can  show  a  record  of  benevolence  equal  to 
this  ? 

May  those  to  whom  these  trusts  have  been  committed  prove  worthy 
of  their  heritage,  and  transmit  them,  with  augmented  resources,  to  the 
coming  generations  ! 

In  singling  out  these  representatives  of  the  manifold  forces  which 
have  contributed  to  the  growth  of  her  civic  life,  Northampton  does  not  for- 
get her  indebtedness  to  the  working  men  and  women  to  whom  she  owes 
her  origin,  and  who  have  always  constituted  the  great  majority  of  her 
citizens. 

The  first  settlers  of  Northampton  represented  a  vigorous  stock, 
physically  and  intellectually.  In  emigrating  from  the  Old  Country  and 
braving  the  perils  of  the  ocean  to  establish  homes  in  an  unexplored  wil- 
derness, thev  illustrate  the  survival  of  the  fittest.     Thev  were  men  not 


160  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

easily  daunted  nor  discouraged.  Hardships  they  made  Hght  of;  work 
they  esteemed  honorable,  and  indolence  criminal.  They  had  high  ideals 
of  virtue,  law  and  religion.  Sharing  in  a  measure  the  ignorance,  the 
superstition,  the  indifference  to  pain,  which  characterized  that  period 
of  civilization,  they  nevertheless  possessed  so  richly  the  essential  prin- 
ciples of  truth,  justice  and  righteousness,  that  they  were  enabled  to 
outgrow  the  forms  of  ancient  barbarism,  and  to  develop  here  some  of 
the  best  types  of  manhood  and  womanhood.  They  soon  made  North- 
ampton a  center  of  light  and  commanding  influence  to  all  the  region. 
Good  and  able  citizens  were  attracted  from  other  localities  by  the  supe- 
rior advantages  here  offered.  Steady  contributions  of  the  best  blood  of 
New  England  poured  in  to  enrich  and  to  make  more  vigorous  the  original 
parent  stock.  None  were  ashamed  to  work  with  their  hands  as  well  as 
with  their  brains.  They  ploughed  fields,  felled  forests,  made  roads, 
built  houses,  developed  manufactures,  and  organized,  in  manifold  ways, 
the  varied  industries  which  have  furnished  the  conveniences  and  com- 
forts of  civilized  life.  Men  of  commanding  influence  soon  arose  from 
their  ranks  who  filled  acceptably  and  with  conspicuous  ability  the  high- 
est offices  of  church  and  state,  while  all  classes  and  conditions  of  freemen 
worked  unitedly  for  the  common  weal  through  the  forms  of  a  democratic 
government.  As  freely  as  she  received,  so  freely  Northampton  has 
given  her  citizens  to  play  important  parts  in  founding  other  towns  and 
cities.  Her  sons  and  daughters  have  been  among  those  who  led  the  van 
in  that  movement  which  has  carried  civilization  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific.  Even  in  lands  remote,  among  peoples  widely  separated  from 
us  in  language  and  lineage,  her  merchants,  mechanics,  teachers,  mission- 
aries, and  the  youth,  who  here  gained  their  first  knowledge  of  Christian 
civilization,  have  carried  her  name  and  made  her  beneficial  influence  felt. 
You,  the  living  representatives  of  these  generations,  whose  lives  are  im- 
perishably  embodied  in  the  City's  corporate  existence,  and  who  have 
made  her  light  to  shine  all  over  the  earth,  she  also  welcomes  to  her 
festival,  in  the  hope  that  labor  here  shall  never  be  a  source  of  strife,  or 
an  instrument  of  tyrannical  oppression — shall  never  be  a  merely 
servile  task,  but  shall  remain  so  honorable  and  helpful,  that  when 
another  quarter  millennial  of  history  is  completed,  men  shall  find 
here  a  nobler  and  more  abundant  life. 

And  now  it  is  my  privilege  to  welcome  one  who,  though  not  a 
native  or  resident  of  Northampton,  is  an  illustrious  example  of  the 
citizenship  which  she  has  steadily  aimed  to  produce, —  a  man  to 
whom  all  American  citizens  are  greatly  indebted  for  his  estimable 
service  in  the  high  offices  of  state  which  he  has  most  acceptably 
filled,  and  who  increases  our  obHgations  today  by  consenting  to 
honor  us  by  his  presence  and  speech. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  I  have  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  and  pre- 
senting to  vou,  as  the  orator  of  the  day,  the  Hon.  John  D.  Long,  who 
will  now  address  vou. 


E  X  -  G  O  V  E  RN  O  R     LONG'S     ADDRESS 


Hon.     John     D.     Long 


DR.  HOLMES  once  wittily  suggested  that  nowadays  the  patron 
saint  of  Massachusetts  is  Saint  Anniversary.      Hardlv  a  day 
in   the    year    comes   round   which   is   not  an  occasion  for  the 
celebration  of  the  foundation  of  some  stone  in  the  temple  of 
the  Commonwealth. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  the  good  saint  is  not  as  prolific  in  suggesting 
themes  for  the  orator  as  he  is  in  furnishing  demands  for  his  appearance 
and  reappearance,  though  never  his  positively  last  appearance.  Every 
line  of  discourse  has  been  worn  threadbare.  From  the  past  is  alwavs 
drawn  the  same  lesson ;  from  the  present  the  same  warning;  for  the  future 
the  same  injunction  to  be  good  and  true,  and  to  be  virtuous  if  we  would 
be  happy.  As  we  hear,  on  whatever  occasion  or  from  whatever  lips, 
these  cumulative  addresses,  which  come  so  thick  and  fast  that  nobodv 
reads  th^m  except  in  the  headlines  of  the  abstracts  of  a  good-natured 
press,  they  remind  us  of  the  variations  which  the  musician's  art  develops 
in  the  tinkling,  melodious  paraphrase  of  some  old  song,  and  through 
which,  though  perhaps  for  a  moment  carried  away  by  what  seems  a  new 
note  or  measure,  we  soon  recognize  the  familiar  air  of  "Yankee  Doodle," 
or,  as  today,  the  heart-touching  refrain  of  "Sweet  Home." 

For  it  is  the  dear  old  home  you  celebrate  today  —  set  in  this  paradise 
of  New  England,  on  the  bank  of  the  beautiful  Connecticut,  under  the 
sentinel  watch  of  Mt.  Tom  and  Mt.  Holyoke,  along  these  rich  meadows 
which  tempted  here  your  ancestors,  and  in  the   lap  of  these  bordering 


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hills — its  clustering  roofs  sheltering  happy  family  circles,  its  varied  in- 
stitutions of  industry  and  thrift  and  charity  and  education  making  it  the 
type  of  the  best  civilization  of  the  age,  and  its  memories  and  associations 
those  of  a  patriotic,  progressive  history,  in  which  are  prominent  the  deeds 
and  influence,  not  more  of  a  few  than  of  the  whole  body  of  the  men  and 
women  who  have  inspired  and  characterized  it  from  the  beginning. 

Hence  it  is  that  this  is  an  occasion,  not  for  special  recital  of  here 
and  there  an  event  or  of  here  and  there  a  name,  or  for  grandiloquent  or 
didactic  oration,  but  for  the  happy  reunion  of  neighbors  and  townspeople, 
for  the  interchange  of  greetings,  and  a  gathering  at  the  family  fireside 
of  fall — for  they  all  still  live — who  from  the  beginning,  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years  ago,  have  dwelt  in  its  warmth  and  added  to  its  cheer. 

And  as  all  these  generations  rehearse  their  story,  what  I  am  sure 
strikes  us  most  is,  that,  with  all  your  growth  in  numbers  and  wealth 
and  institutions,  with  all  your  material  progress  in  the  arts,  with  all 
your  accumulation  of  knowledge  and  the  means  of  its  acquirement,  and 
with  all  your. justly  boasted  advance,  the  fundamental  qualities,  the 
human  nature,  and  the  springs  within  the  man  himself,  which  have 
worked  out  all  these,  are  the  same  that  broke  the  silence  of  the  wilder- 
ness here  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  and  planted  here  the  stand- 
ard of  a  Christian  commonwealth.  Whether  you  look  back  along  the 
lines  of  military  or  of  civic  life,  of  farm  or  shop  or  cloister,  it  is  the 
same  man  at  every  turn,  with  the  same  hope  and  inspiration  and  duty 
and   achievement. 

When  in  the  spring  of  1654  the  first  settlers  made  here  their  home, 
and  soon  gathered  around  the  family  altar  their  wives  and  children  and 
their  household  goods,  erecting  their  homesteads  and  selecting  their 
meadow  lots,  holding  their  first  town  meeting,  erecting  the  meeting- 
house for  all  town  purposes,  (for  the  parish  and  the  town  were  one), 
putting  themselves  in  political  relation  with  the  General  Court  of  the 
colony,  establishing  courts  of  justice  and  appointing  officers  to  enforce 
the  law,  and  beginning  a  system  of  the  records  of  the  town  to  which 
they  gave  its  present  euphonious  name,  it  was  all  no  mere  beginning, 
but  the  already  matured  fruit  of  a  civilization  in  which  it  was  a  step, 
and  in  which  ours  is  but  a  later  step. 

For  there  is  this  striking  peculiarity  in  our  early  history.  We  were 
born  from  the  front  of  Jove,  mature  and  full.  The  civilization  of  other 
peoples  has  been  a  slow  evolution  from  barbarous  beginnings,  with 
influxes  through  invasion  or  conquest  or  political  relations  with  other 
powers.  Our  fathers  began  well  up  the  summit,  and  I  doubt  whether 
it  has  been  possible  to  make  much  advance  on  them  in  the  fundamentals 
of  intellectual  power  and  grasp  or  righteous  living.  They  were  almost 
all  of  English  stock,  though  the  Hibernian  was  in  evidence  in  North- 
ampton within  twenty  years  from  its  start  and  later  was  granted  and 
today  largely  illustrates  the  citizenship  which  was  at  first  denied  him. 
Indeed  now,  with  nearly  all  nations  represented,  you  are  a  world-city 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  163 

From  the  1)irth  of  your  town  you  find  no  day  of  mean  things,  no  semi- 
barbarism  from  which  there  has  been  an  exodus,  but  always  the  pro- 
gressive spirit.  No  more  generous  enthusiasm  for  learning  or  piety  or 
patriotism  goes  into  your  institutions  today  than  they  put  into  theirs. 
Their  spelling  sometimes  seems  a  little  peculiar,  but  it  is  not  worse  than 
that  of  some  graduates  of  Harvard  and  Yale  whom  we  have  known. 
They  planted  the  school-house,  they  procured  the  best  teachers,  they 
trained  their  children  for  the  university.  They  dotted  your  landscape 
with  the  spires  of  churches.  On  the  roll  of  their  divines,  their  physicians, 
their  lawyers,  their  soldiers,  their  statesmen,  you  find  the  most  illustrious 
names.  Why  mention  Mather  and  Edwards  and  Stoddard  and  Lyman 
and  Cook  and  Parsons  and  Williams  and  Hawley  and  Strong  and  Pom- 
eroy,  when  to  mention  these  names  is  to  omit  others,  so  many  of  which 
are  also  worthy  of  mention?  The  things  of  course  which  conspicuously 
and  conventionally  mark  the  history  of  a  town  are  the  characteris- 
tics and  acts  of  certain  individuals.  Around  these  cluster  the  romance 
and  the  interest.  They  are  the  blazed  monarchs  of  the  forest  by  which 
the  traveler  finds  his  way.  And  yet  I  think  the  true  history  of  a  New 
England  town  for  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  is  in  its  unindividualized 
growth,  as  steady  and  irresistible  as  the  movement  of  a  glacier — the 
whole  abundant  forest,  not  a  few  trees  in  it  but  the  whole  abundant 
forest  with  its  mighty  growing  shelter  and  its  common  glory — -in  other 
words,  the  entity  of  civilization,  with  its  bettering  of  human  conditions 
for  all  life.  If  you  would  trace  the  real  history  of  Northampton,  you 
will  not,  proud  as  you  may  be  of  them,  limit  your  view  to  names  such 
as  I  have  mentioned,  which  quickest  catch  the  eye  and  elicit  the  praise 
of  the  outsider  who  in  kindly  courtesy  pays  3'ou  the  graceful  compli- 
ment of  an  after-dinner  speech.  You  will  find  it  in  the  homelv  bene- 
factions of  those  who  by  industrious  toil  and  faithful  citizenship  have 
kept  sweet  the  heart  of  New  England  civilization,  and  who,  though  no 
Emerson  dwelt  among  them,  lived  his  philosophy  long  before  him  in  the 
serenity  of  their  hearth-sides,  and  have  written  it  in  the  esthetic  adorn- 
ment of  their  homes.  You  will  find  it  in  the  devotion  of  clergymen  and 
teachers,  of  good  women,  humble  apostles  of  social  reform  and  charity, 
of  progressive  citizens  of  foreign  birth,  of  men  of  wealth,  who,  with  a 
public  spirit  worthy  of  all  praise,  have  year  after  year  contributed  to 
enlarge  and  to  freshen  every  stream  of  good  influence,  and  of  men  whose 
only  wealth  was  the  labor  of  their  hands,  but  all  which  they  poured 
into  the  channels  of  the  thrift  and  development  of  your  municipality. 
Such  be  the  benefactors  of  your  town,  the  fibre  of  your  history,  whom 
no  orator  pictures,  whom  no  poet  sings. 

Even  from  the  first  one  wonders  at  the  great  array  of  active,  thriv- 
ing, busy  men,  who  were  erecting  forges  and  factories  on  vour  streams, 
engaging  in  agricultural  pursuits  with  an  ardor  and  success  that  put  us 
of  today  to  shame,  carrying  on  large  traffic,  their  mills  merry  with  the 
song  of  the  saw  and  wheel,  their  streets  active  with  the  life  of  carriage 


164  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


and  commerce.  To  the  wars  they  sent  no  hirehngs  or  churls,  but  men 
of  reputation  and  substance.  Some  of  them  were  high  in  mihtary  rank; 
some  perished  in  the  flower  of  their  youth,  in  battle  with  the  native  or 
foreign  foe.  They  rendered  stout  service  in  the  French  and  Indian 
wars,  and  were  at  Crown  Point  and  Fort  Edward  and  Fort  William 
Henry.  Their  contribution  of  life  and  substance  in  meeting  the  fright- 
ful attacks  of  the  savages,  whom  they  proposed  to  govern  with  or  with- 
out their  consent,  was  proportionately  larger  than  any  sacrifice  of  our 
modern  times.  The  story  of  that  conflict  with  the  Indian  foe  is  full  of 
romance,  of  instances  of  personal  heroism,  of  pitiless  cruelty  suffered,  of 
fight  and  burning  and  captivity,  and  yet  amid  it  all  went  on  the  steady 
growth  of  the  town,  peace  more  potent  than  war.  They  were  in  at  the 
taking  of  Louisburg,  where  Seth  Pomeroy,  an  equally  good  blacksmith 
and  soldier,  won  the  prestige  that  gave  him  later  a  brigadier-general- 
ship in  the  war  of  Independence.  They  were  all  through  that  glorious 
war,  at  the  siege  of  Boston,  and  in  the  long  line  of  reverses  and  suc- 
cesses that  followed.  They  were  substantially  on  the  side  of  law  in 
Shays'  Rebellion,  which,  if  it  had  not  good  cause,  had  some  occasion  in 
the  distresses  of  the  time,  the  oppression  of  debt  under  which  the  rural 
population  groaned,  and  the  exactions  of  hard  creditors,  but  which  after 
all,  to  the  credit  of  our  fathers  be  it  said,  was  fought  out  rather  by  the 
hard-headed  debate  of  yeomen  in  the  field  and  in  the  village  than  by  the 
comparatively  bloodless  battles  between  a  pitchfork  and  a  rusty  musket, 
or  in  the  race  by  the  mob  and  the  militia  through  the  snowdrifts  of 
Petersham.  It  was  at  that  time,  and  to  help  create  public  sentiment 
against  disorder,  that  the  Hampshire  Gazette,  the  forerunner  of  the 
potent  influence  of  the  press  of  the  Connecticut  valley,  was  founded, 
with  such  men  as  Joseph  Hawley  and  Caleb  Strong  as  contributors. 

In  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  Northampton's  record  is  one  of  proud 
achievement :  it  is  a  record  not  only  of  the  service  and  sacrifice  of  those 
who  went  to  the  front,  its  sons  enrolled  in  more  than  half  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts regiments  in  the  Union  army,  especially  in  the  fighting  Tenth 
Massachusetts,  in  which  Northampton  was  conspicuous,  and  which 
inscribes  on  its  colors  the  battles  of  the  Peninsula,  Antietam,  Fred- 
ericksburg, Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg  and  the  Wilderness,  but  of  the 
unfailing  help  and  the  unwavering  loyalty  of  those  who  at  home  pro- 
vided the  material  sinews  of  war  and  upheld  the  equally  important 
public  sentiment  of  unflinching  faith  and  fidelity  to  the  end.  At  San- 
tiago, in  the  Spanish-American  war,  one  of  Northampton's  sons,  bear- 
ing a  name  historic  in  her  annals,  was  a  most  conspicuous  captain 
in  that  brilliant  naval  battle.  Indeed,  as  I  run  back  through  these 
two  centuries  and  a  half,  I  share  the  glow  of  pride  which  you  feel 
in  finding  no  lingering  record  of  folly  or  crime  to  excuse ;  no  era 
of  ignorance  and  darkness  to  be  relieved  with  mythical  traditions 
of  physical  prowess;  no  succumbing  to  the  witchcraft  delusion  which 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  165 

shamed  your  fellow  colonists  of  the  Eastern  shore  and  which  your  ances- 
tors practically  laughed  out  of  court  as  the  pestilent  nuisance  of  back- 
biting and  querulous  gossips;  hardly  any  offences  more  heinous  than  the 
ordinary  pranks  and  disorderly  behavior  of  lusty  and  super-abundantly 
lively  boys  whose  heads  the  tithing-man  rapped  with  his  staff  to  keep 
them  quiet  during  church  service,  but  all  along  the  years  a  clear,  steady 
light ;  not  the  blaze  of  sacrifice  or  pomp  or  wealth  or  war,  but  the  light 
of  Christian  intelligence  and  simple  virtues  and  trvie  manhood. 

As  I  have  said,  the  real  history  of  Northampton  is  the  history  of  its 
years  of  peace  and  ordinary  procedure.  Its  share  in  war  and  battle  is 
incidental.  And  yet  its  record  there  is  conspicuous.  If  there  be  a  silver 
lining  in  the  tempestuous  cloud  of  war,  it  is  in  the  fact  that  war  is  not 
solely  battle  and  blood  and  horror.  It  has  been  the  convulsion  which 
rent  apart  the  hard  and  restricting  coil  of  oppression  and  repression. 
God  doubtless  might  have  made  a  better  berry  than  the  strawberry, 
though  doubtless  God  never  did.  God  might  have  made  a  human 
nature  that  would  not  have  wrought  out  its  betterment  largely  through 
its  selfish  instincts  and  the  survival  of  its  fittest,  and  that  would  not  by 
its  rapacity  have  given  occasion  for  meeting  the  sword  with  the  sword. 
While  philosophy  and  humanity  have  abhorred  war  as  a  monstrous 
though  sometimes  necessary  calamity,  it  has  given  outlet  to  the  exercise 
of  some  of  the  noblest  virtues  and  furnished  most  striking  material  for 
the  historian,  the  novelist,  the  painter,  the  poet  and  the  singer.  The 
great  spirits  that  have  evoked  and  presided  over  it  have  been  the  great 
spirits  of  the  age.  Nothing  can  redeem  it,  considered  by  itself  and  for 
its  own  sake.  But  as  an  agency  in  human  outburst  and  growth,  it  has 
been  the  thunderbolt  that  has  made  the  air  clearer;  it  has  been  the  con- 
vulsion that  has  torn  asunder  the  obstructions  in  the  pathway  of  peace. 
God  grant  that  it  may  somewhat  atone  for  its  ravages  today  by  an  early 
letting  in  of  the  sunshine  of  a  better  civilization  in  the  three  great  realms 
of  the  Orient,  whose  fortunes  it  now  involves.  In  the  slow  evolution  of 
progress  which  has  not  yet  taken  us  entirely  out  of  the  brutal  stage,  it 
must  be  regarded  as  the  knife  that  has  sometimes  cut  the  cancer  from 
the  flesh.  In  that  evolution  its  horrors  are  already  alleviated,  every 
resort  is  urged  for  its  avoidance,  and  in  the  millennium  it  will  disappear. 
But  meantime  let  us  not  forget  that  out  of  its  son  have  sprung  force  of 
character,  resourcefulness  in  exigencies,  statesmanship,  appreciation  of 
human  rights,  qualities  of  leadership  and  of  protection  to  the  weak  and 
of  battle  against  wrong,  stimulus  to  like  qualities  in  the  bloodless  but 
equally  vital  struggles  in  time  of  peace  for  righteousness  and  order, 
and  some  of  the  finest  humanities, — even  as  exquisite  flowers  sometimes 
spring  from  the  foulest  sod:  and  that  all  these  things  never  found  finer 
expression  than  in  your  fathers  of  Northampton  and  the  Common- 
wealth of  which  she  is  one  of  the  jewels — the  Athens  of  Western  Mass- 
achusetts, as  Mr.  Bridgman  has  called  her,  alike  distinguished  for  hero- 
ism and  literature,  graced  by  writers  like  Edwards  and  Judd  and  Cable 
and  honored  by  the  visits  of  patriots  like  Lafayette  and  Kossuth. 


166  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

I  desire  to  conciliate  you  with  no  fulsome  compliment  to  your 
community,  which  in  its  origin,  its  history,  its  consummation,  is  not 
unlike  many  another  in  our  Commonwealth;  but  I  have  read  its  story 
with  a  feeling  of  profound  respect  and  veneration  and  gratitude.  You 
could  today  have  visited  shrines  of  greater  fame,  over  which  are  temples 
wrought  by  masters  of  architecture  and  gorgeous  with  the  creations  of 
supreme  art ;  you  could  in  imagination  re-create  from  Greek  and  Roman 
ruins  lying  before  your  gaze  the  magnificent  grandeur  and  beauty  of 
dynasties  that  have  ruled  the  world;  you  could  in  ancient  cloisters  hold 
commtmion  with  illustrious  dead  who  were  once  the  living  representa- 
tives of  the  most  conspicuous  achievement  and  the  proudest  glory  of 
warrior,  statesman,  orator,  poet,  scholar  and  divine.  But  broader  than 
these  is  the  scope  of  the  humanity  and  beauty  and  significance  of  the 
birthplace  of  a  town  like  this,  where  no  broken  column  or  fallen  temple 
tells  of  the  magnificence  and  luxury  of  the  few  wrung  from  the  poverty 
of  the  many :  where  no  statue  or  shrine  keeps  alive  the  memory  of  warrior 
or  king  or  of  any  one  man  who  stood  out  from  his  fellowmen  because 
their  inferiority  to  him  made  him  seem  great;  but  where  rather  has 
been  the  self-growth  of  a  people,  that  common  recognition  in  town  or- 
ganization of  the  equal  rights  of  all  men,  which  could  not  endure  that 
any  child  should  be  uneducated,  or  that  any  one  caste  should  hold 
supremacy  or  any  other  should  be  ground  under  foot,  or  that  any  slave 
should  long  breathe  Massachusetts  air,  and  which  in  our  generation, 
expanding  in  the  indignant  burst  of  a  nation's  heart,  has  struck  the 
fetters  from  four  million  bondmen,  and  made  America  indeed  the  land 
of  the  free. 

With  keen  interest  I  have  read  your  ecclesiastical  history.  I  recall 
the  homely  houses  of  worship,  with  their  barren  interior  of  bench  and 
wall,  unwarmed  by  fire  or  shaded  bv  curtain  or  blind,  the  congregation 
of  decorous  and  sober  men  who  brought  their  wives  and  little  ones  to 
meeting,  or,  sending  them  to  the  front,  themselves  remained  near  the 
door  to  guard  against  attack  from  without  and  perhaps  by  their  austere 
watchfulness  to  maintain  good  order  within;  and  the  wig  and  gown  and 
accorded  authority  of  the  pastor,  who  from  his  high  pulpit  preached  the 
word  of  God  and  at  the  same  time  took  a  hand  in  the  secular  affairs  of 
the  town,  its  taxes  and  fences,  and  was  at  once  priest,  teacher,  politician, 
mentor,  guide,  and,  in  the  best  and  in  no  depreciating  sense,  the  general 
busy-body  and  factotum.  Meagre  as  was  his  salary,  it  is  interesting  to 
note  that  he  sent  his  boys  to  college  and  that  his  inventory  in  the  pro- 
bate court  shows  what,  in  the  Yankee  vocabulary  of  the  time,  was  "a 
considdable  proppity." 

I  am  not  of  those  who  feel  much  interest  in  the  theological  polemics, 
the  interior  church  quarrels,  the  sometimes  bitter  and  often  petty  dif- 
ferences that  were  always  arising  in  the  churches  of  our  New  England 
towns,  as  among  a  jealous,  free-minded,  unslavish,  thinking  people  they 
always  will  arise ;  nor  do  I  share  in  the  flippancy  with  which  some  have 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  167 

lightly  touched  or  ridiculed  the  old  New  England  clergy  or  the  psalm- 
singing  Puritan.  We  know  better.  As  we  read  all  history,  we  see  of 
how  little  consequence  are  the  dry  bones  of  dogmatic  puzzle,  of  dis- 
tinctions between  Pharisee  and  Sadducee  and  Essene,  of  the  refinements 
of  metaphysical  dogma,  and  how  full  of  eternal  life  and  sap  are  the 
veins  through  which  has  run  the  flow  of  great  moral  and  religious  prin- 
ciples. The  wig  and  gown  of  the  Puritan  pastor,  the  cocked  hat  and 
sober  demeanor  of  the  Puritan  deacon  do  not  mislead  us.  We  know 
the  rich  fund  of  human  interest,  of  kindly  humor,  of  practical  sense,  of 
independent  thinking  and  of  constant  care  for  the  welfare  of  society, 
its  education  and  improvement,  which  made  the  church  of  our  fathers 
a  fountain  of  life  and  of  light,  and  one  of  the  deep  imbedded  granite 
foundation  stones  of  the  Commonwealth,  on  which  rests  its  proud 
superstructure  today  of  college,  of  school,  of  good  laws,  and  sound 
education,  and  business  prosperity,  and  Christian  civilization.  Let  us 
not  forget  the  part  which  the  church,  not  as  a  building  erected  by 
human  hands,  not  as  a  theatre  for  the  display  of  clerical  eloc|uence  or 
authority,  not  as  a  congregation  of  sectarians,  but  as  the  expression  of 
our  common  recognition  of  the  divine  imminence  and  of  our  accept- 
ance of  the  teaching  and  example  of  the  great  Master  as  the  true 
guidance  of  a  people,  has  played  in  the  growth  and  fruitage  of  our 
institutions  and  in  our  character  as  a  state,  and  especially  in 
freedom  of  thought  and  in  the  spirit  of  independence.  The  church 
and  state  are  indeed  well  dissevered  in  their  machinery;  but  Heaven 
forbid  that  in  their  spirit  and  influence  they  should  ever  be  anything 
but  one. 

The  great  figure  in  the  church  history  of  Northampton  is  Jonathan 
Edwards.  It  is  not  for  me  at  this  time  to  dilate  upon  that  illustrious 
name.  The  metaph^^sical  refinements  of  which  he  was  a  master  have 
long  since  ceased  to  be  of  general  interest  to  this  practical  age.  The 
terrors  of  his  heated  imagination,  glowing  with  scorching  fires,  arc  now 
no  more  appalling  than  the  memory  of  the  harmless  lightnings  that  re- 
lieved the  gloom  of  a  last  summer's  shower.  And  yet  in  his  rebuke 
and  denunciation  of  sin  and  the  sinner  he  is  no  more  severe  than  the 
pulpit  of  today,  though  the  punishment  it  now  fits  to  the  crime  has  less 
of  the  odor  of  the  burning  pit  and  more  of  the  sting  of  the  outraged 
conscience.  The  treatises  on  the  will  and  on  original  sin,  and  other 
abstruse  and  subtle  ratiocinations,  wrought  out  in  his  study,  which  gave 
him  world-wide  fame  and  are  marvels  of  metaphysical  reasoning,  were 
written  after  he  went  from  your  town.  To  us  in  our  neighborly  remi- 
niscences here  today,  he  is  only  the  Northampton  preacher,  who,  unlike 
some  other  prophets,  was  not  in  his  own  day  altogether  without  honor 
and  is  in  our  day  indeed  with  the  highest  honor  in  his  own  country,  but 
like  other  local  ministers  of  his  time,  and  our  time,  had  his  fret  and 
friction  with  his  parish,  which  ultimately  drove  the  pastor  from  his 
charge  of  the  fold.     The  mechanic,  the  farmer  and  the  young  lawyer, 


168  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

who  faced  him  in  parish  encounter  on  the  issue  of  half -covenant,  but  I  sus- 
pect still  more  in  resistance  to  his  restrictions  on  the  lighter  indulgences 
of  personal  life,  carried  the  day  against  him,  as  the  shoemaker  of  Marsh- 
field  was  too  much  for  Daniel  Webster  in  the  town-meeting  debate. 

An  interesting  feature  in  the  local  life  of  the  old  time  is  illustrated 
by  the  very  frictions  and  ciuarrels  in  the  church,  to  which  I  have  re- 
ferred. There  were  no  railroads  in  those  days,  creating  great  aggrega- 
tions of  people  in  business  centers;  there  was  no  city  in  New  England; 
there  was  no  great  West  tempting  to  distant  investment,  and  yet  there 
were  the  same  tremendous  personal  energies  which  in  our  generation 
have  spanned  the  continent  with  iron  rails,  covered  the  ocean  with  our 
commerce,  dug  the  wealth  of  mines  from  the  bowels  of  the  earth,  flashed 
the  electric  light  into  every  dark  place,  and  are  now  emitting  a  pathway 
for  the  sea  between  the  northern  and  southern  halves  of  this  hemisphere. 
These  energies  have  simply  found  a  larger  field.  They  were  then  limited 
to  the  town,  sometimes  the  county,  less  often  the  state,  and  found  their 
exercise  in  the  local  church,  the  local  town  meeting,  the  local  school  and 
the  local  militia.  They  expended  themselves  over  the  location  of  the 
meeting-house,  the  purchase  of  a  bell,  the  salary  of  the  minister.  As 
much  vital  force  and  strenuous  clash  of  argument  went  into  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  enormity  of  a  horse  race,  the  election  of  an  ensign,  the 
division  of  meadow  lots,  the  laying  out  of  a  highway  or  a  bridge,  the 
conflict  between  geographical  sections  of  the  town  for  a  school-house 
or  a  meeting-house  site,  as  nowadays  go  into  a  presidential  campaign 
or  the  administration  of  our  insular  possessions  or  the  shrill  debate  on 
the  tariff.  Resistance  to  the  imperious  edicts  of  the  Puritan  church 
against  "pride  in  clothes  and  hair"  as  "a  heinous  sin,"  was  as  sturdy  as 
the  resistance  a  century  later  of  the  Boston  patriots  to  the  landing  of  the 
tea.  They,  too,  in  those  days,  when  wheat  supplied  the  lack  of  cash, 
of  which  there  was  next  to  none,  dealt  with  the  problems  of  a  sound 
currency.  They  had  their  financial  budgets;  they  made  appropriations 
not  only  for  the  developing  enterprises  of  peace,  but  for  war  with  the 
Indian  and  the  Frenchman  and  the  red-coats.  They,  too,  put  their 
public  spirit  into  home  manufacture,  into  sheep  raising  and  wool  spinning 
and  products  of  every  sort  that  their  local  necessities  required.  The 
village  tavern  was  their  secular  senate  house,  and  its  keeper  was  a  man 
equal  to  the  representation  of  his  town  in  the  General  Court,  or  to  the 
command  of  its  militia  in  the  martial  field. 

I  have  not  thought  it  my  duty,  aware  as  I  am  of  your  thorough 
familiarity  with  everv  detail  of  vour  historv,  and  bringing  you  only  the 
general  suggestions  that  go  with  such  an  anniversary  occasion,  to  enter 
upon  the  work  of  tracing  that  history  or  the  interesting  local  and  personal 
features  that  are  incident  to  it — especially  to  your  early  history,  which,  as 
I  note  also,  in  my  reading  of  the  lives  of  great  men,  is  usually  the  most 
interesting  part.  That  is  a  work  for  which  I  am  not  fitted,  and  which 
has  been  done  for  vou  bv  those  whose  accuracv  of  research  and  fulness 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  169 

of  information  I  cannot  emulate.  The  result,  the  general  drift  and 
progress,  are  what  I  see,  and  as  I  realize  the  high  advance  of  these  I 
feel  that  the  motto  "Noblesse  oblige"  should  with  especial  fitness  apply 
to  you.  If  the  chivalrous  spirit  of  an  artificial  caste,  nobility  of  birth, 
antiquity  of  blood,  distinction  of  progenitors,  put  men  under  obligations 
to  be  knightly,  honorable,  brave  and  true,  how  much  greater  is  the  obli- 
gation that  rests  upon  a  people,  who  look  back  upon  two  hundred  and 
fiftv  vears  of  a  history  like  yours,  to  be  true  to  the  standard  of  virtue, 
patriotism,  simplicity,  purity  and  intelligence,  which  your  fathers  have 
set  you. 

I  am  not  of  those  who  overrate  the  past.  I  recognize  that  our  civili- 
zation is  better  than  that  of  our  fathers,  and  that  we  have  reached  a 
higher  level  in  science,  art,  education,  religion,  even  in  politics,  and  in 
every  phase  of  human  development,  even  in  morals,  taking  into  account 
our  tremendously  accumulated  and  intermixed  populations  and  vasth' 
increased  massings  of  wealth  and  multiplication  of  opportunities  and 
temptations  for  social  and  financial  excesses  and  offences.  It  is  to  the 
eternal  verities  of  the  past  that  we  pay  our  tribute ;  and  we  can  do  no 
better  work  than  to  perpetuate  virtue  in  the  citizen  by  keeping  always 
fresh  in  the  popular  mind  the  great  heroic  deeds  and  times  of  our  historv. 
In  this  life  it  is  impossible  to  overrate  the  good  influence  on  national 
destiny  of  a  legendary  name.  Look  back  to  your  own  childhood  and 
tell  me  when  you  first  grew  mature  enough  to  distinguish  patriotism 
from  the  story  of  General  Warren  and  Bunker  Hill.  Who  shall  say 
that  the  tradition  of  Marathon  and  Thermopvlae  did  not  give  us  Concord 
and  Yorktown,  as  it  also  gave  independence  to  modern  Greece,  and 
glorified  the  career  and  death  of  Byron,  and  made  our  own  Howe  cru- 
sader and  philanthropist  ?  Who  shall  determine  how  far  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  integrity  of  our  Union  has  depended  on  the  memorv  of 
Webster,  and  found  help  in  the  picture  in  Faneuil  Hall  of  his  great 
debate  with  Hayne,  as  well  as  in  his  unanswerable  logic? 

Let  us,  however,  avoid  undue  praise  of  the  fathers,  because  the 
bare  truth  is  tribute  enough,  and  because  it  is  so  easy  to  exaggerate  the 
past.  Undue  exaltation  of  the  good  of  other  times  has  its  demoralizing 
side.  There  is  no  service  or  manliness  in  belittling  our  own  times  and 
men.  It  is  the  fashion  of  every  present  hour  —  by  no  means  a  new 
fashion  —  to  scatter  the  poison  of  aspersion  on  all  current  character, 
service  and  society.  There  is  occasion  for  satisfaction  with  the  Republic 
as  it  enters  on  the  new  centurv.  This  slender  strip  of  seaboard,  on 
which  Northampton  at  its  incorporation  was  barely  a  dot,  is  now  an 
empire  so  magnificent  in  territory  and  population  and  development 
that  the  imagination  cannot  take  it  in.  Think  of  what  has  been  done 
in  the  matter  of  education,  of  public  schools,  of  universities  of  learning 
for  both  sexes  and  all  races,  one  of  which  has  in  the  short  space  of  I'^ss 
than  a  generation  made  Northampton  famous  the  nation  over  with  the 
name  of  Smith  College.     In  science  we  have  unlocked  the  secrets  of  the 


170  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

earth  and  the  air  and  the  sea,  and  made  them  not  merely  matters  of 
wonder  but  handmaidens  of  homely  use.  Religion  has  been  refined  and 
elevated,  and  the  human  mind,  searching  for  divine  truth,  has  arisen 
above  superstition  and  cant  and  with  knowledge  for  its  guide  has  rec- 
onciled faith  w4th  an  enlightened  reason.  In  all  matters  of  comfort, 
of  use,  of  elegance,  of  convenient  living,  of  house  and  table  and  furniture 
and  light  and  warmth  and  health  and  travel,  what  thorough  and  benef- 
icent advance  equally  for  all,  shaming  the  petty  meanness  with  which, 
unjust  alike  to  the  old  times  and  the  new,  we  inveigh  against  the  old 
times  and  overrate  the  new  !  At  home  it  is  with  a  feeling  of  satisfaction 
and  pride  that  we  turn  to  our  own  Commonwealth,  in  every  department 
of  her  public  life;  in  the  administration  of  her  chief  magistrate,  repre- 
sentative of  the  plain  living  and  high  thinking  of  her  people ;  and  in  her 
spotless  judiciary,  which  has  never  fallen  below  its  best  standard  and 
whose  ermine  bears  no  stain.  Shall  I  prefer  the  old  times,  when  I  see 
government  made  today  the  use,  the  culture,  the  salvation  of  the  people ; 
saving  those  who  are  in  peril  from  want  and  fire  and  famine;  looking 
after  the  little  children;  caring  for  the  insane,  the  idiotic,  the  criminal, 
the  drunkard,  the  unfortunate,  the  orphans  and  the  aged;  guarding  the 
interests  of  the  laborer;  bringing  to  the  help  of  the  agriculturist  the  best 
results  of  science,  and  building  colleges  for  the  promotion  of  the  noble 
calling  of  the  culture  of  the  soil;  investigating  the  causes  of  disease  and 
securing  its  prevention ;  giving  to  all  the  people  comforts  that  were  once 
not  even  the  luxurious  dream  of  princes;  pouring  out  education  like 
streams  of  living  water;  maintaining  great  and  generous  charities;  ex- 
tending the  shield  of  its  foresight  and  encouragement  over  all  alike ;  and 
guarding  the  savings  of  the  small  earners  and  collecting  in  its  institutions 
for  savings  the  wages  of  more  than  one-half  its  voters,  the  depositors 
therein  numbering  some  eighteen  hundred  thousand  or  nearly  two- 
thirds  of  its  population,  and  their  deposits  amounting  to  some  $650,000,- 
000,  an  amount  nearly  equal  to  one-third  of  the  whole  taxable  valuation 
of  the  Commonwealth,  thereby  ensuring,  bv  enfibring  the  fortunes  of  the 
mass  of  the  people  with  the  very  roots  of  the  State,  a  security  against 
riot  and  upheaval  which  is  stronger  than  vaults  of  steel  or  even  the  ter- 
rors of  the  law?  Can  the  most  ardent  dreamer  picture  a  truer  social- 
ism than  Massachusetts  herself?  What  is  your  own  municipality  but 
an  illustration  of  the  same  sort  —  a  cluster  of  homes  for  all,  a  hive  of 
industry  for  all,  security  and  law  and  order  and  light  and  grounds  and 
walks  and  worship  and  recreation  and  freedom  for  all?  What  an  array 
of  institutions  of  education,  from  the  famous  Round  Hill  School,  asso- 
ciated with  the  name  of  Bancroft,  historian  of  the  United  States  and 
secretary  of  the  navy,  to  the  Smith  College  for  girls,  to  which  I  have 
already  referred,  with  its  more  than  a  thousand  pupils  from  everywhere  ! 
What  an  accumulation  of  charities — the  Smith  Charities  which,  flowing 
from  a  will  the  probate  of  which  was  an  arena  for  the  contending  elo- 
quence and  argument  in  your  court-house  of  Daniel  Webster  and  Rufus 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  171 

Choate,  has  laid  the  foundation  of  an  agricultural  school  and  made  pro- 
vision with  strikingly  ample  liberality  for  the  poor — the  Commonwealth's 
hospital  for  lunatics — the  Dickinson  hospital — the  Clarke  School, 
which  has  wrought  the  miracle  of  making  the  deaf  hear  and  the  dumb 
speak — this  Academy  of  Music  given  by  Mr.  Lyman — and  the  Memo- 
rial Hall  and  Public  Library  to  wdiich  Jenny  Lind  added  her  song 
note,  and  the  Forbes  Library  and  the  Lilly  Library,  a  triple  contribution 
to  the  architecture  and  the  literary  enrichment  of  the  whole  community, 
treasure-houses  of  knowledge,  inexhaustible  mines  of  education,  the 
monopoly  of  no  man  or  body  of  men,  but  thrown  wide  open  for  genera- 
tions to  come,  to  be  the  free  common  resort  and  possession  of  the 
people. 

Grant  that  corruption  exists  in  high  places  and  in  low.  Grant  that 
politics  too  often  turn  into  barter.  Whatever  the  evil,  it  cannot  stand 
against  the  discernment  which  is  so  swift  to  uncover  and  shame  it  and 
which  will  permit  it  no  concealment.  There  is  good  token  in  the  very 
sensitiveness  of  the  public  mind,  which  was  never  keener  or  quicker  to 
discover  and  punish  fraud  and  faithlessness  than  now.  Herein  is  the 
source  of  the  beneficence  of  the  modern  press,  which,  though  here  and 
there  a  vellow  streak  runs  through  it,  throws  the  blaze  of  the  noon-time 
sun  into  the  work  of  exposure  and  purification.  It  must  not  be  forgotten 
that  the  Republic  was  not  only  an  experiment  in  its  inception,  but  is 
so  still.  We  are  apt  to  judge  it  by  the  severe  rules  of  criticism  wdiich 
we  apply  to  completed  work.  We  forget  that  only  a  few  short  years  ago 
it  was  said  that  a  popular  government  cannot  succeed ;  that  the  popular 
mind  is  not  sufficiently  educated  to  be  relied  upon;  that  a  pure  democ- 
racy has  in  it  no  stability  or  permanence,  but  must  go  down  w4th  the 
first  tumult  of  popular  frenzy;  that  patriotism  will  decay  without  the 
veneration  that  attaches  to  monarchy ;  and  that  in  a  government  of  the 
people  ignorance,  fraud,  brutality  and  crime  will  rise  by  might  of  fist 
and  lung  to  the  supremacy.  The  wonder  is  not  that  the  Republic  is 
not  perfect  today  in  its  machinery,  its  character,  its  results,  but  that 
with  its  monstrous  expansion  from  within  and  immigration  from  abroad 
it  has  fared  so  well,  and  that  its  achievements  are  better  than  its  founders 
dared  predict  or  hope.  Tell  me  w^hat  government,  ancient  or  modern, 
has  been  more  stable  or  freer  from  convulsion.  Who  are  our  politicians, 
if  not  the  presidents  of  our  colleges,  our  brightest  poets,  our  most  vigorous 
divines,  our  conspicuous  merchants,  our  foremost  lawyers,  our  leading 
men  evervwhere?  Our  politics,  at  which  we  rail  so  much,  are  what  we 
are.  Will  you  say  that  there  are  startling  evidences  of  neglect,  when 
no  pulpit  is  without  its  fervid  appeal  for  loftier  patriotism;  when  no 
class  graduates  from  college  that  half  its  orations  are  not  on  the  duty  of 
the  citizen  to  the  State  — I  wish  the  boys  would  afterwards  practise 
what  they  preach  when  graduating;  when  our  centennials  fairly  weary 
us  with  the  demand,  made  by  all  who  speak  by  voice  or  pen,  for  national 
purity  and  virtue ;  and  w^hen  no  political  party  dares  the  popular  verdict 


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that  does  not  proclaim  and  exhibit  its  purpose  of  reform  in  every  branch 
of  the  pubHc  service  ?  Let  the  test  of  our  hope  or  despair  be  not  so  much 
the  severe  standard  of  the  very  highest  reach  of  the  demands  of  today, 
but  rather  the  modest  trust  with  which  a  httle  more  than  a  hundred  years 
ago  our  fathers  risked  a  democracy.  Is  it  nothing  that  their  perilous 
confidence  in  human  nature,  and  in  the  ability  and  inclination  of  the 
masses  to  govern  themselves  aright,  has  been  justified  and  not  abused  ? 
Is  it  nothing  that,  ruled  by  a  mob,  our  leaders  selected  from  and  by  a 
mob,  our  laws  the  popular  sentiment  of  a  mob,  yet  such  is  the  prepon- 
derance of  the  good  elements  over  the  bad,  of  the  upward  tendency  over 
the  downward,  of  order  over  disorder,  of  progress  over  stagnation,  that 
the  experiment  has  resulted  in  more  than  a  century  of  success;  that, 
however  imperfect  the  scheme  in  some  of  its  outward  manifestations, 
it  is  correct  in  principle ;  and  that  it  has  shown  the  practicability  and 
wisdom  of  a  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  for  the  people  r 
If  there  were  none  in  the  ranks  except  the  men  who  have  proved  un- 
worthv,  we  might  despair;  but  not  when  we  remember  that  in  every 
section  of  the  country  we  still  number  great  hosts  of  honest  and  able 
men  fit  for  every  political  need  or  duty.  If  a  period  of  national  de- 
moralization were  followed  by  continued  indifference  and  acquiescence, 
we  might  despair;  but  not  when  we  see  it  followed  by  the  indignant 
uprising  of  the  better  elements,  the  wholesome  criticism  of  the  press,  the 
otitcry  of  the  poet  and  the  philosopher,  the  sturdy  and  resolute  reaction 
of  that  fundamental  intelligence  and  honesty  of  the  people,  which  are 
the  fruit  of  our  system  of  free  education,  and  which  can  always  be  relied 
on  in  the  last  resort  to  do  the  work  of  reform  when  the  crisis  comes. 
For  one  I  feel  no  final  anxiety.  I  regard  it  as  a  sign  of  the  permanence 
of  our  institutions,  that  today,  when  so  many  mourn  over  the  sadder 
revelations  of  the  time,  a  wiser  philosophy  looks  through  the  ferment 
that  is  sloughing  the  scum  from  the  surface  and  purifying  the  body  pol- 
itic from  top  to  bottom.  To  be  conscious  of  the  malady,  in  a  republic 
of  free  schools  and  a  free  press,  is  to  cure  it. 

It  is  easy  to  raise  spsctres  of  danger  and  forecast  perils  that  threaten 
to  destroy  the  Republic.  But  it  will  meet  and  beat  them.  It  is  flying 
in  the  face  of  nature  and  of  experience  to  fear  that  man,  with  increasing 
expansion  of  his  opportunities  and  powers,  has,  like  a  child,  no  horizon 
of  promise  beyond  his  present  vision.  Why  should  we,  at  the  opening 
of  the  century,  with  its  magnificent  impulse  onward,  shudder  with  the 
same  ignorant  and  ungodly  distrust  with  which  the  old-time  men  trembled 
at  the  coming  of  the  one  just  ended?  We  have  brought  no  dangers  that 
we  have  not  averted,  no  perils  that  have  overwhelmed  us.  Why  whis- 
per under  the  breath  that  in  the  near  years  to  come  men  are  to  with- 
draw more  and  more  from  the  grinding  of  unremitted  and  unlightened 
physical  toil  ?  Do  not  you  and  I  enjoy  whatever  exemption  from  it 
there  comes  to  us,  and  shall  not  the  humblest  enjoy  as  much  ?  Will  it 
be  an  evil  when  science,  with  its  inventions  and  its  use  of  the  illimitable 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  173 

agencies  of  nature,  the  development  of  which  is  now  but  in  its  infancy, 
shall  perform  still  more  the  drudgery  of  toil  and  let  the  souls  of  all  go 
freer?  Labor  and  industry,  in  the  nature  of  things,  will  never  cease: 
but  the  progress  of  the  ages  will  direct  them  to  higher  levels  of  employ- 
ment, never  dispensing  with  their  need,  but  rather  adding  to  their 
dignitv  and  to  the  happiness  they  return.  Why,  this  terror  lest  those,  who 
have  not  had  the  sweetness  and  refinements  and  elevations  of  leisure, 
shall  have  them  more  and  more,  as  well  as  those  of  us  more  fortunate, 
to  whom  it  certainl}-  has  brought,  not  harm,  but  cultures?  Our  danger 
is  not  in  the  honest  though  selfish  efforts  of  either  labor  or  capital  to 
promote  its  material  interests.  It  is  not  in  the  efforts  which  men,  who 
suffer  from  the  hard  inequalities  of  the  general  well-being,  make  to  bet- 
ter their  condition  by  theories  of  social  or  industrial  reorganization. 
All  these  things  will  under  natural  laws  in  a  free  country  work  out  their 
own  salvation.  Has  the  result  hitherto  been  so  disastrous  as  to  make 
us  fear  either  the  bettered  conditions  of  the  masses,  or  their  ambition 
for  better  conditions  still?  Faith  in  the  common  people  is  not  a  fine 
phrase  or  a  dream;  it  is  the  teaching  of  experience  and  test.  They, 
too,  may  be  confided  in  to  measure  and  accept  the  necessities  and  ine- 
qualities that  attach  to  hviman  living;  and  they  are  not  going  to  destroy 
any  social  economy  which  blesses  them  all,  because  it  does  not  bless 
them  all  alike.  Are  not  fidelity,  patience,  loyal  service  and  good  citi- 
zenship, true  of  the  kitchen,  the  loom  and  the  bench?  Is  there  no 
professor's  chair,  no  clergyman's  desk,  no  merchant  prince's  counting- 
room,  dishonored?  Does,  indeed,  the  line  of  simple  worth  or  social  or 
political  stability  run  on  the  border  of  any  class  or  station?  The  people 
mav  be  trusted  with  their  own  interests.  If  it  shall  appear  that  any 
one  form  of  government  or  society  fails,  there  will  always  be  intelligence 
and  wit  enough  to  fashion  a  better.  Forces  will  come  at  command. 
The  instinct  of  self-preservation  counts  for  something,  as  well  as  the 
elements  of  goodness  and  progress  which  are  inherent  in  human  nature. 
And  when  all  these  unite,  while  there  will  indeed  be  change  and  revo- 
lution, there  will  never  be  wreck  or  chaos.  There  will  be  fools  and 
fanatics  and  assassins  and  demagogues  and  cranks,  and  all  sorts  of 
insane  or  vicious  dissolvers  of  security;  there  will  be  convulsions  and 
horrors;  every  fair  summer  the  lightning  flashes  and  strikes.  But  all 
these  are  the  tempests  of  the  year  complementing  the  unfailing  sunshine 
and  rain  which  make  the  blooming  and  fragrant  garden  of  the  earth. 
There  must,  indeed,  be  eternal  vigilance  and  increasing  zeal  and  en- 
deavor for  the  right.  But  can  there  be  nobler  or  finer  service  than  to 
contribute  these?  Or,  if  you,  sleek  and  well-to-do,  and  jealous  of  your 
fortunate  share  of  good  things,  fear  lest  frenzy  and  drunkenness  and 
vice  invade  your  domain,  will  you  not  stop  sneering  at  the  reformers, 
who,  in  whatever  line  or  of  whatever  sex  or  social  scale,  are  trying  to 
breast  the  torrent,  and  give  them  your  countenance,  your  help  and  your 
right  arm?"     Shall  our  forecast  of  imminent  or  coming  perils  unnerve  us 


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174  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

and  awake  only  a  whine  of  despair;  or  shall  it  rather  put  us  to  our 
mettle,  and  to  the  development  of  the  better  influences  which  always 
have  averted  and  always  will  avert  disaster? 

Grant  the  great  accumulations  of  individual  and  corporate  wealth, 
with  its  larger  luxuries;  grant  this,  and,  if  there  be  danger  in  it  —  as  there 
is — be  on  your  guard.  But  is  it  all  evil  ?  Have  the  multitude  been 
correspondingly  straitened  and  deprived  ?  Are  the  homes,  the  food, 
the  clothing,  the  literary  and  esthetic  tastes,  and  the  amusements  of 
the  toilers,  more  limited,  or  do  they  share  in  the  general  betterment? 
Is  the  public  library  closed  to  them  ?  Is  there  no  newspaper — a  library 
in  itself — in  their  hands  each  day  ?  Have  they  less  or  dimmer  light  to 
read  by  than  before ;  or  scantier  means  of  conveyance  from  the  city  to 
the  fields  and  beach ;  or  more  meagre  communication  with  the  great 
orbit  of  the  living  world,  its  interests,  its  activities,  its  resources  ?  May 
we  not  yet  find  even  in  this  bugbear  of  excessive  wealth,  with  its  peril- 
ous luxury  emasculating  those  who  enjoy  it  and  tempting  those  who 
ape  it,  the  seeds  of  the  evil's  own  cure?  If  it  be  not  so,  it  is  the  first 
instance  of  a  corruption  which  has  not  wrought  its  own  better  life.  Need 
we,  indeed,  even  now,  look  far  off  for  a  day  when  the  vulgar  gluttony  of 
wealth  will  be  the  disdain  of  good  manners  and  high  character,  not 
worth  its  own  heavy  weight,  and  no  longer  the  aim  of  a  better  and  finer 
time  ?  Is  happiness,  or  was  it  ever,  correspondent  with  wealth  or  luxury  ? 
Are  not  most  men  superior  to  either,  or  to  the  fever  for  them?  I  do  not 
think  it  too  much  to  say,  that  in  the  time  to  come,  "Give  me  neither 
poverty  nor  riches"  will  be  not  only  the  wise  man's  prayer,  but  the 
"smart"  man's  maxim  and  the  aristocrat's  choice.  What  refreshment, 
even  today,  to  turn  to  examples  of  wealth  —  of  which  there  are  so  many 
illustrious  in  your  own  city — which  finds  its  most  gracious  use  and  its 
most  indulgent  luxury  in  cooling  streams  of  charity  and  beneficence, 
flowing  broadcast  amid  the  parched  lowlands  of  want  and  ignorance 
and  wrong.  Who  in  Northampton  today  forgets  Oliver  Smith,  or 
Sophia  Smith,  or  John  Clarke,  or  Judge  Forbes  ?  Under  our  system 
the  easy  mobility  of  wealth  is  its  own  no  small  safeguard  and  regulator. 
Not  only  do  fortunes  come  and  go;  not  only  from  all  rounds  of  the 
social  ladder  do  the  millionaires  spring;  but,  even  while  retained  in 
the  same  hand,  wealth  does  not  lie  inactive  and  embayed,  but  is 
coursing  everywhere,  a  trust  rather  than  an  exclusive  possession  to  its 
owner,  employing,  supporting,  enriching,  a  thousand  other  men.  To 
hold  its  encroachments  in  check,  is  indeed  wise,  but  to  emasculate  it 
and  the  strenuous  enterprise  which  strives  for  it,  is  to  cripple  not  him 
but  them.  It  is  engaged  in  their  service  more  than  in  his.  It  has  no 
existence  except  in  this  very  subservience  to  the  general  use.  Destroy 
this  function,  and  it  is  but  a  corpse,  worth  no  man's  having.  Fortunate 
is  the  community,  and  men  do  not  decay,  where  under  our  institutions 
wealth  honestly  and  normally  accumulates.  It  cannot  fill  one  hand 
without  overflowing  into  every  other.      It  cannot  live  to  itself  alone. 


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Danger  and  peril  enough  indeed;  need  everywhere  for  safeguards 
and  forethought !  But  the  world  is  a  failure  and  man  is  a  lie  if  there  be 
not  in  him  the  capacity  to  rise  to  his  own  might,  and  to  keep  pace  with 
his  own  growth.  Are  education,  science,  is  this  godlike  mind,  are  the 
soul  and  the  moral  nature  to  count  for  nothing  but  their  own  disaster? 
Is  there  no  future  manhood  to  meet  the  future  crisis  ?  Is  there  no 
God  ?  As  the  dead  past  buries  its  dead,  so  the  unborn  future  will  solve 
its  own  needs.     Ours  it  is  to  do  the  duty  of  the  present  hour. 

True,  indeed,  it  is  that  the  moral  level  is  still  a  thousand  times  too 
low.  All  this  material  and  intellectual  progress  has  brought  with  it 
only  a  greater  responsibility;  and  no  American,  who  rises  to  the  true  ap- 
preciation of  his  citizenship  and  of  his  descent  from  fathers  such  as  yours, 
can  for  a  moment  reflect  upon  the  startling  and  portentous  expansion 
of  the  nation,  its  vast  wants,  its  intricate  and  ponderous  machinery  of 
government,  its  temptations  to  corruption  in  business,  in  politics  and 
in  every  relation,  its  present  startling  aggregations  of  arrogant  pluto- 
cratic power,  its  tendency  in  high  circles  to  fashionable  rot  and  vice, 
without  feeling  that  the  great  need,  the  one  thing  to  enforce  everywhere 
is  the  personal  accountability  of  every  citizen  for  the  welfare  and  dignity 
and  high  character  of  his  country,  and  for  taking  care,  in  the  noble 
language  of  the  Roman  fathers,  that  the  republic  suffer  no  detriment. 
We  cannot  too  earnestly  impress  this  duty  or  concentrate  too  many  in- 
fluences in  its  behalf,  or  bring  it  too  straight  home  to  the  young  men 
and  women  who  are  the  most  responsible  class  in  the  community,  though 
they  are  least  conscious  of  their  responsibility.  For  this  reason  it  is 
indeed  well  to  keep  always  before  our  eyes  what  is  sterling,  what  is  best 
in  the  past.  Happy  is  it  that  in  the  providence  of  God  the  dead  past 
does  bury  its  dead,  but — though  the  poet  forgot  to  add  it — keeps  alive 
its  living;  that  it  buries  the  dead  lies,  the  dead  meanness,  cowardice, 
treason,  the  dead  infidelity,  sin  and  folly,  the  dead  men  that  have  sunk 
into  benign  oblivion;  but  that  whatever  was  heroic  and  divine,  what- 
ever was  pure  gold,  whatever  true  man  lived,  whatever  good  and  pat- 
riotic deed  was  done  or  word  spoken,  wherever  a  Washington  gathered 
into  his  form  the  beauty  of  manliness,  into  his  soul  the  grandeur  of  an 
exalted  life,  all  these  the  past  preserves  forever  fresh  and  immortal,  but 
hides  under  the  turf  the  faults  and  frailties.  I  doubt  not  that  Jesus  — 
the  great  poet — meant  this  when  he  bade  the  disciple  let  the  dead  bury 
their  dead.  Well  may  time  drop  the  curtain  hastily  over  its  own  decay. 
It  is  the  spirit  we  want,  not  the  form;  the  germ  and  not  the  husk;  the 
principle  and  not  the  event;  the  thought  and  not  the  man.  It  were 
nonsense  to  pay  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  fathers,  or  to  celebrate 
these  centennials  for  their  own  sake  or  for  any  other  purpose  than  to 
utilize  the  past  in  the  future,  to  project  the  lessons,  the  experience,  the 
better  soul  of  the  past  into  the  soul  of  the  future,  to  make  it  also  better 
and  grander.  In  the  light  of  mere  narrative  and  boast,  the  battle,  the 
victory,  the  congress,  even  the  heroes,  are  idle  tales  that  are  told;  they 


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might  as  well  have  been  the  fictions  of  the  ^neid  or  the  pictures  of 
the  novelist.  But  for  the  aid  which  our  dull  imaginations  gst  from  mate- 
rial associations  and  the  touch  of  flesh  and  blood  the  personages  of 
Shakespeare  are  more  real  than  the  Seven  Pillars  of  the  Church  of  North- 
ampton; the  Ivanhoe  of  romance  is  a  knight  better  known  to  us  than 
Col.  Ephraim  Williams,  killed  in  the  bloody  morning  scout  that  pre- 
ceded the  battle  of  Lake  George  in  1775;  and  Colonel  Thomas  Newcoms 
and  Mr.  Pickwick  have  exerted  a  more  personal  influence  in  forming 
the  character  of  the  Christian  gentleman  than  the  example  or  lives  of 
even  the  men  who  created  those  characters.  But  as  examples  of  what 
true  men  have  achieved  and  of  what  we  may  therefore  achieve  as  well  — 
as  exhibiting  virtue,  not  as  the  mere  ideal  of  the  poet,  but  as  the  sub- 
stantial consummation  of  a  noble  life  actually  lived,  the  characters  and 
deeds  of  our  ancestors  are  very  fountains  of  inspiration. 

The  century  now  opening  will  be  one  of  moral  and  scientific  growth. 
The  field  is  unlimited ;  the  opportunity  inexhaustible.  Only  let  us  realize 
the  absolute  duty  of  impressing  on  the  leading  classes,  as  we  call  them, 
on  the  educated  and  religious  classes  at  least,  the  necessity  of  their  pro- 
jecting themselves  out  of  the  ranks  which  need  no  physician  into  the 
ranks  which  do.  I  do  not  mean  the  nonsense  of  class  distinctions;  I 
mean  that  whoever  is  a  foremost  man  in  any  sphere,  in  the  professions, 
in  trade  or  elsewhere,  whoever  leads  in  politics,  in  church,  in  society, 
in  the  shop,  must  feel  that  on  his  shoulders  alone  rests  the  public  safety. 

There  must  be  the  sense  of  personal  obligation  on  every  man  whose 
natural  power  or  happy  opportunities  have  given  him  a  lift  in  any  wise 
above  the  rest.  Virtue,  public  and  private,  will  become  easy  and  pop- 
ular when  it  is  the  badge  and  inspiration  of  the  leaders;  and  good  influ- 
ences from  the  top  will  permeate  through  the  whole  body  politic,  as 
rain  filters  through  the  earth  and  freshens  it  with  verdure  and  beauty 
and  fertilitv.  To  me  it  seems  axiomatic  that  the  educated  and  virtuous 
in  a  free  state  can  control  it  if  they  will.  I  would  emphasize,  more 
than  anvthing  else,  the  duty  of  the  enlightened  classes  to  throw  all 
their  energies  into  the  popular  arena.  Why  should  the  ingenuous  youth, 
fresh  from  college,  dream  of  Pericles  swaying  with  consummate  address 
and  elor[uence  the  petty  democracy  of  Athens,  and  himself  shun  the 
town-house,  where,  in  a  golden  age,  beside  which  the  age  of  Pericles  is 
brass,  is  moulded  the  destiny  of  his  own  magnificent  republic  ?  Why 
kindle  with  the  invective  of  Cicero,  or  the  wit  of  Aristophanes,  and 
himself  be  too  dainty  to  lift  voice-  or  finger  to  banish  Catiline  and  Cleon 
from  manipulating  "the  honor,  the  integrity,  the  achievement,  of  the 
fatherland,  bequeathed  to  him  in  sacred  trust  by  his  own  heroic  ances- 
tors ?  Little  sympathy  is  to  be  felt  with  the  spirit  that  stands  aloof 
and  rails  at  the  clumsy  work  of  government  by  the  people  who 
on  their  part  invariably  welcome  the  approach  of  the  man  of  culture 
and  will  give  him  place  if  only  he  will  not  convey  the  idea  that  he  de- 
spises it.     It  is  useless  to  deny  that  the  scholars  have  failed  oftentimes 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  177 

—  less  of  late — to  improve  their  opportunity;  and  if  ever  the  republic 
goes  to  the  bad,  it  will  be,  not  because  the  illiterate  and  lax  have  seized 
and  depraved  it,  but  because  the  instructed  and  trained  have  neglected  it. 

A  short  time  ago,  in  one  of  the  historical  towns  of  our  Common- 
wealth, I  was  at  the  funeral,  in  a  spacious  village  church,  of  a  man  whose 
manly  life  and  sterling  character  filled  it  with  a  throng  that  came  to 
pay  him  at  his  burial  the  tribute  of  their  respect,  not  alone  for  him  but 
for  the  fundamental  qualities  of  the  good  and  true  citizen  of  which  he  was 
a  type.  As  I  saw  that  great  outpouring  of  men  and  women  of  all  classes 
and  professions  and  callings  and  creeds  in  religion  and  politics,  it  seemed 
to  me  not  more  a  tribute  to  him  than  to  them,  or  rather  as  I  have  said, 
to  the  great  underlying  forces  of  our  civilization  of  which  he  and  they 
were  a  part.  I  know  the  elements  of  selfishness,  of  frailty,  of  defect, 
that  were  all  there;  but  stronger,  deeper,  mightier,  were  the  better 
things — the  standard  in  the  mass  being  always  higher  than  in  the  indi- 
viduals who  compose  it  —  and  I  thought  how  irresistible,  in  a  republic 
of  freedom  and  education  and  equal  rights,  are  the  personal  forces  which 
are  the  real  republic  and  commonwealth,  and  which,  if  only  united  and 
devoted,  if  conscious  of  their  power  and  of  their  responsibility  for  its 
exercise,  can  meet  any  danger  that  threatens  the  public  welfare  and 
ensure  the  absolute  security  of  state  and  society. 

Two  hundred  and  fifty  years !  Two  hundred  and  fifty  years  of 
the  same  intense  life  we  now  live,  packed  with  problems  that  seemed  to 
defy  solution,  with  convulsions  that  seemed  to  threaten  the  foundations 
of  government  and  social  order,  with  trends  in  destiny  that  seemed  as 
vital  as  the  very  beatings  of  the  hearts  which,  through  all  those  years, 
have  burned  with  patriotic  fire.  And  yet  we  sum  up  the  two  centuries 
and  a  half  in  a  paragraph  of  half  an  hour;  we  look  serenely  back  and 
see  only  a  steady  onflowing  current  which  has  never  broken  its  banks 
or  gone  dry,  and  which,  if  here  and  there  along  its  course  it  has  run  over 
boulders,  recognizes  them  only  by  its  eddies  and  ripples,  laughing  at 
them  in  the  sunshine.  Had  it  run  in  some  other  channel,  it  would  still 
have  found  its  way  to  the  sea.  Will  our  children's  children  look  back 
as  complacently  on  the  frets  of  our  day?  Will  they  dismiss  in  half  a 
dozen  lines  the  fever  of  our  debate  over  protection  on  the  one  hand  and 
free  trade  on  the  other,  or  over  reciprocity  which  seems  to  be  their 
appendix  or  go-between — over  these  rending  strifes  between  capital 
and  labor — over  the  questions  whether  the  policy,  which  has  given  all 
the  blessings  of  our  institutions  to  the  islands  of  the  Orient  under  our 
banner  and  to  Cuba  under  its  own,  is  beneficence  or  imperialism ;  whether 
the  Philippines  shall  be  pledged  a  date  for  their  nominal  independence, 
which  if  not  kept  would  be  dishonor,  or  a  promise  of  it  at  some  indefinite 
time  which  might  by  its  uncertainty  and  resulting  restlessness  only  delay 
the  special  work  which  is  now  so  vitally  important  at  our  hands  and 
which  we  are  doing  with  such  unparalleled  fidelity,  of  upbuilding  them  in 
every  line  of  education,  industry  and  full  participation  in  their  own  good 


178 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


government?  So  far  as  all  the  old  contentions  of  the  past  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years  go,  we  are  in  smooth  water;  may  we  not  trust  that  the 
billows  which  rock  our  boat  today  will  likewise  be  to  future  eyes  only 
the  long  swell  of  the  thus  far  safely  crossed  ocean  of  Time.  May  we  not 
trust  that,  hereafter,  as  in  the  past,  problems  and  frictions  and  upheavals 
will  work  out  their  salvation,  if  only  we  meantime  see  to  it  that  the  one 
permanent  and  essential  element  of  personal  character,  which  in  its 
aggregate  is  the  public  opinion  which  is  the  only  government  we  have, 
either  in  the  state  or  in  society,  is  kept  good  and  true,  the  heart  clean 
and  the  hands  pure ;  and  that  whatever  in  this  respect  was  characteristic 
of  our  fathers  we  preserve,  as  our  children  and  children's  children 
must  preserve  it  after  us?  The  age  is  past,  but  the  man  lives.  His 
stepping-stones  serve  their  use  and  are  left  behind.  His  monuments 
grow  dim  in  the  distance.  Only  his  soul  survives.  It  finds  no  chart 
except  what  we  reverently  call  God  in  His  revelation  to  it  in  itself.  To 
Him,  seated  in  the  individual  human  heart  and  guarding  the  indi- 
vidual conscience,  it  is  responsible;  by  Him  it  must  set  its  course. 

Lord,  thou  hast  been  our  dwelling  place  in  all  generations. 

Before  the  mountains  were  brought  forth,  or  ever  Thou  hadst 
formed  the  earth  and  the  world,  even  from  everlasting  to  everlasting, 
Thou  art  God. 

For  a  thousand  years  in  Thy  sight  are  but  as  yesterday  when  it  is 
past,  and  as  a  watch  in  the  night. 

So  teach  us  to  number  our  days  that  we  may  apply  our  hearts  unto 
wisdom. 


AFTERNOON  EXERCISES    IN    THE    TENT 

ADDRESS       R  T      EDWIN      C.      HOWARD,      WITH 
REMARKS        B  r        SAMUEL        S.        CAMPION 


EXERCISES  in  the  Anniversary  tent  or  pavilion,  began    at   two 
o'clock  Monday  afternoon.     These  were  nominally  proposed  for 
the  school  children  and  so  announced,  but  probably  two-thirds 
of  the  audience  were  adults,  and  the  address  of  Principal  Edwin 
C.  Howard  of  the  Center  Grammar  school,  as  well  as  that  of  Alderman 

Campion  of  Northampton,  England, 
was  more  worthy  of  the  elder  portion 
of  the  assembly. 

It  deserves  to  be  said,  in  this 
connection,  that  Principal  Howard 
had  been  an  inhabitant  of  North- 
ampton but  a  few  months,  and  in 
charge  of  the  grammar  school,  when 
he  gave  his  address,  and  his  accurate 
and  well-framed  statement  of  his- 
torical facts  was  therefore  specially 
■^  '^'^^  noteworthy. 

The  exercises  opened  with  the 
singing  of  "The  Star  Spangled  Ban- 
ner," by  the  pupils  of  the  yth,  8th 
and  gth' grades   and  the  high  school. 


Principal    Edwin    C  .    Howard 


under  the  direction  of  Conductor  L.  Lee 
Wellman.  This  was  followed  by  Wagner's 
"Pilgrims'  Chorus"  by  the  high  school.!  The 
addresses  of  Mr.  Howard  and  Mr.  Campion 
were  followed  by  the  singing  of 

(a)  "June" Schneckcr 

(b)  "  The  Heavens  Resound  " Beethoven 

The  exercises  closed  with  the  singing  of 
"America"  by  the  combined  chorus  and  the 
audience. 

This  feature  of  the  Celebration  was  one 
of  the  most  inspiring  of  the  three  davs,  and 
children  as  well  as  parents  seemed  to  appre- 
ciate it. 


L .     Lee     Wellman 
Supervisor  of  Music  in  the  Scliools 


PRINCIPAL     HOWARD'S    ADDRESS 


AT  a  time  like  this,  when  our  city  is  filled  to  overflowing  with  the 
thousands  who  have  gathered  to  celebrate  with  us  the  two 
hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  its  birth,  it  is  with  a  feel- 
ing of  no  common  pride  that  we  point  to  our  present  state  of 
prosperity,  to  our  world-famed  manufactures,  to  our  educational  insti- 
tutions, honorably  known  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
land;  to  our  magnificent  charities,  our  eminent  men  of  the  present,  and 
it  is  altogether  wise  and  right  that  we  should  feel  thus.  We  converse 
with  the  older  men  and  women  whom  we  meet  in  our  daily  walks  and 
from  them  obtain  glimpses  of  the  men  and  events  of  a  quarter  or  half 
century  ago,  but  how  few  of  us  look  farther  into  the  past !  How  few 
of  us  know  the  part  which  our  city,  then  but  a  village,  played  in  the 
stirring  scenes  of  the  Revolution !  How  few  realize  the  dangers  from 
Indian  tomahawk  and  scalping  knife  which  the  forefathers  braved  as 
they  planted  the  seeds  of  the  new  settlement  near  the  great  bend  of 
the  river,  at  the  foot  of  the  overhanging  mountain !  It  seems  espe- 
cially fitting,  then,  that  we  should  pause  for  a  brief  hour  in  the  midst 
of  the  festivities  which  surround  us  to  look  back  upon  the  earlier  days, 
and  follow  the  forefathers  as  they  went  in  and  out  among  the  rude 
cabins  which  their  industry  had  built,  to  trace  the  progress  of  advanc- 
ing industry  and  culture  and  refinement  through  its  various  stages, 
from  the  crude  settlement  and  hardy  frontier  village  of  the  pioneers, 
to  the  present  position  of  power  and  influence  which  our  municipality 
holds. 

We  might  entertain  a  feeling  of  peculiar  pride  could  we  know  that 
the  early  settlement  of  this  region  was  the  result  of  devotion  to  some 
tenet  of  religion,  or  in  defence  of  some  principle  of  humanity  or  lib- 
erty; but  a  more  material  motive  seems  to  have  been  the  impelling 
force.  The  rich  meadow  lands  seen  by  earlier  explorers,  the  possibil- 
ity of  acquiring  greater  wealth,  the  desire  to  turn  these  unused  treas- 
ures of  nature  to  present  usefulness,  were  the  powers  that  led  the  three- 
score pioneers  to  set  out  from  Hartford,  Wethersfield,  Windsor  and 
Springfield  for  the  fertile  lands  farther  up  the  river,  which  seemed  to 
them  to  fulfill  the  Scriptural  promise  of  "a  land  flowing  with  milk 
and  honey." 

So  we  may  see  them,  in  fancy,  during  those  May  days  of  1654, 
wending  their  way  along  the  banks  of  the  Connecticut,  striking  boldly 
across  the  fields  and  through  the  woods  along  a  trail  where  busy  high- 
ways now  run  and  Westfield,  Southampton  and  Easthampton  stand, 
then  on  until  they  reached  the  banks  of  Mill  river  at  the  point  now 
crossed  by  the  West-street  bridge,  but  not  finding  a  suitable  ford,  fol- 
lowed the  south  bank  of  the  stream  to  the  spot  where  later  the  old  South- 
street  bridge  stood,  and  there  they  fordecl  the  river  and  pitched  their 
camp  that  first  night  on  the  east  side  of  what  is  now  Pleasant  street. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  181 

It  is  gratifying  to  know  that  the  business  deaHngs  of  the  settlers 
with  the  Indians  were  always  of  an  honorable  nature.  The  land  was 
not  claimed  merely  by  right  of  settlement,  but  the  Indians  were  paid 
what  they  considered  to  be  a  fair  compensation,  namely,  a  hundred 
fathoms,  (625  feet),  of  wampum,  ten  coats,  and  a  few  small  trinkets. 
In  exchange  for  this  sum  was  granted  all  the  land  along  the  river  from 
Mount  Tom  and  the  falls  at  South  Hadley,  to  the  great  bend  of  the  river 
above  Hadley,  extending  nine  miles  westward  from  the  river  bank. 
From  this  territory  have  been  carved  the  present  towns  of  Northamp- 
ton, Easthampton,  Southampton  and  Westhampton,  and  parts  of 
Montgomery  and  Hatfield. 

The  name  of  the  Indian  tribe  from  whom  this  rich  territory  was 
purchased  was  "Nonotuck,"  variously  pronounced  Nealwatog,  Nor- 
wottage,  and  Norwottuck,  meaning  "In  the  midst  of  the  river,"  and 
from  this  fact  the  name  Nonotuck  was  given  to  the  new  settlement. 
But  within  eight  months  of  the  time  of  settlement  the  name  North- 
ampton was  in  more  or  less  common  use,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
thereafter  the  two  names  were  used  interchangeably,  and  in  some  of 
the  early  public  documents  reference  was  made  to  Nonotuck  in  one 
part  and  to  Northampton  in  another. 

There  were  two  reasons  for  the  use  of  this  new  name.  One  was 
that  some  of  the  settlers,  while  still  in  the  land  of  King  Charles,  had 
their  homes  in  Northampton,  England,  and  with  a  feeling  that  has  a 
touch  of  pathos  in  it,  as  we  look  back  upon  it,  wished  to  perpetuate 
the  name  that  bore  with  it  the  associations  of  a  home  far  over  the 
seas. 

The  other  reason  is  found  in  the  meaning  of  the  name  "Northern 
town,"  and  as  this  was  the  northernmost  town  on  the  Connecticut 
river,  the  combination  of  sentiment  with  appropriateness  of  meaning 
gave  us  the  name  dear  to  later  generations  through  its  own  inherent 
associations. 

Every  head  of  a  familv  was  given  four  acres  of  land  within  the 
village  for  a  home  lot,  and  fifteen  acres  of  "river  land,"  which  we  now 
call  meadow  land.  For  every  additional  male  member  of  the  family 
three  acres  were  added  to  the  original  grant,  and  with  the  idea  of  at- 
tracting and  holding  settlers  of  substance,  an  additional  grant  of  twenty 
acres  of  river  land  was  made  for  every  hundred  pounds  which  a 
settler  might  possess.  But  one  condition  was  attached:  that  there 
should  be  four  years  of  actual  occupancy  before  ownership  became 
complete. 

There  is  always  an  importance  attached  to  first  events  of  their 
kind  in  a  new  community,  and  so  it  is  of  i,D^^Kst  to  note  that  the  first 
marriage  in  Northampton  was  that  of  D^ieT  Burt  to  Mary  Holton, 
the  young  couple  living  on  King  street,  where  the  old  Allen  place  now 
stands;  the  first  birth  was  that  of  Ebenezer  Parsons,  who  lost  his  life 
twenty  years  later  in  the  first  Indian  attack  on  Northfield;  the  first 


182  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


tavern  was  kept  by  John  Webb,  on  the  site  of  Spooner's  market;  the 
first  street  laid  out  was  Pleasant  street,  which  bore  in  turn  the  names 
of  Bartlett  street.  Prison  Lane  and  Comfort  street;  the  first  settler 
on  King  street  was  John  King,  for  whom  the  street  was  named,  and 
not  for  the  king  of  England,  as  many  suppose,  for  kings  were  not  pop- 
ular with  the  Puritans  in  the  days  of  Cromwell's  power;  the  first  court 
was  held  March  24,  1661,  while  the  first  meeting-house  was  built  in 
1655,  and  the  first  schoolmaster,  James  Cornish,  took  office  in  1663. 
History  tells  us  that  this  same  Cornish  was  a  great  offender  in  the  line 
of  profanity  and  was  actually  arrested  and  fined  in  court  for  the 
offence. 

As  in  every  primitive  New  England  village  the  church  and  its 
associations  formed  the  center  of  all  life,  we  are  not  surprised  to  learn 
that  before  the  settlement  had  been  in  existence  six  months  a  contract 
for  building  a  meeting-house  was  let,  although  no  organized  church 
existed.  This  building  stood  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  King  streets 
then,  on  the  spot  later  known  as  Meeting  House  Jlill,  and  after  be- 
ing used  as  a  house  of  worship  for  six  years  gave  way  to  a  more  elabo- 
rate structure  and  was  itself  used  as  a  school -house.  But  though  a 
meeting-house  was  built  before  the  village  was  a  year  old,  no  definite 
church  organization  existed  for  nearly  seven  years  after  the  settle- 
ment. But  in  April,  1661,  a  church  organization  was  effected,  and 
it  is  interesting  to  note  among  the  founders,  names  with  which  we  are 
familiar  as  borne  by  men  whom  we  meet  daily  on  our  streets,  many 
of  them  direct  descendants  of  the  fathers.  Wright,  Bridgman,  Will- 
iams, Mather,  Clark,  Cook,  Lyman,  Parsons,  Strong,  Roote,  these 
were  among  the  stalwart  men  who  laid  the  foundations  of  the  old  First 
church. 

No  sketch  of  Northampton's  history,  however  brief,  would  be 
just  to  itself  or  its  subject  if  it  failed  to  recognize  the  power  and  in- 
fluence of  this  church.  At  one  time  the  most  prominent  and  influ- 
ential church  in  all  the  colonies,  if  not  in  the  whole  Protestant  world, 
with  its  long  line  of  eminent  pastors  who  have  been  leaders  of  thought 
and  speech  far  beyond  the  natural  limits  of  a  provincial  parish,  the 
names  of  Mather,  vStoddard,  Edwards,  Hooker,  WilHams,  are  insep- 
arably associated  with  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  grand  old 
town  which  is  our  pride  today. 

In  these  days  of  purely  voluntary  church  attendance  it  is  inter- 
esting to  look  back  upon  the  old  days,  when  every  man,  woman  and 
child  was  compelled  to  attend  the  two  church  services  of  the  Sabbath 
under  penalty  of  fine;  when  the  minister  preached  two  sermons 
a  day,  each  sermon  from  one  to  two  hours  long,  the  morning  sermon 
called  the  Discussion,  and  the  afternoon  discourse  known  as  the  Ap- 
plication, being  generally  a  further  treatment  of  the  morning's  theme. 
No  musical  church  bell  called  the  worshippers  to  their  accustomed 
places,  but  the  long  roll  of  the  drum,  or,  in  later  years,  the  harsh  blare 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  183 

of  the  trumpet,  told  the  villagers  that  their  Sabbath  feast  of  intellect- 
ual piety  was  spread. 

A  description  of  any  old-time  church  service  will  answer  very  well 
for  our  purpose,  for  all  were  much  alike.  The  women  seated  on  one 
side  of  the  church,  the  men  on  the  other;  the  minister  in  his  high  pulpit 
under  the  great  sounding-board."  no  organ  whose  music  should  lift  the 
soul  heavenward,  but,  in  the  later  days  the  viol,  flute  and  cornet  to 
lead  the  singing.  But  in  the  earliest  days  these  accessories  were  deem- 
ed unseemly  in  the  house  of  God,  and  no  music  but  that  of  the  human 
voice  was  heard,  as  the  leader  "deaconed"  the  hymns,  reciting  a  line 
or  two,  ending  invariably  with  the  word  "sing,"  at  which  the  congre- 
gation would  unite  their  voices  in  the  lines  read  and  wait  for  the  next 
couplet,  and  so  on  through  the  eight,  ten  or  twelve  stanzas  of  the  hymn. 
In  Jonathan  Edwards'  day,  however,  the  choral  church  music  of  North- 
ampton had  attained  an  enviable  reputation,  and  in  the  middle  of 
the  last  century  the  chorus  choirs  of  a  hundred  or  a  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-five voices,  with  organ,  cornets,  violins,  flutes  and  double  basses, 
must  have  given  a  volume  of  uplifting  song  that  would  make  the  efforts 
of  our  church  quartets  of  today  seem  but  a  semblance  of  music  as  an 
element  of  worship  which  otir  grandfathers  and  great-grandfathers 
knew. 

Interesting  and  profitable  as  it  would  be  to  follow  the  progress 
of  the  town  from  year  to  year,  or  to  study  its  development  along  spe- 
cial lines  from  their  beginning  to  their  present  condition,  lack  of  time 
forbids  and  we  can  touch  upon  only  a  few  of  the  more  prominent  feat- 
ures of  our  history,  that  stand  out  with  a  little  more  distinctness  than 
many  others  of  almost,  if  not  quite,  equal  importance. 

In  1656  Northampton  was  stirred  to  its  depths  by  a  witchcraft 
excitement,  which,  while  it  did  not  reach  the  stage  of  fanaticism  which 
developed  in  Salem  thirty  years  later,  was  still  ground  for  the  bitter- 
est personal  enmities.  We  may  sm.ile  at  the  idea  of  being  in  league 
with  the  Evil  One  and  by  this  alliance  gaining  power  to  inflict  bodily 
and  material  harm  upon  others,  but  as  we  read  the  account  of  the 
trials  for  witchcraft  which  agitated  the  Connecticut  valley,  we  are 
forced  to  believe  that  the  dangers  of  the  powers  of  darkness  as  per- 
sonified in  the  suspected  women  were  very  real  to  the  Bridgmans  and 
Parsonses  and  Hannums  who  were  the  accusers  or  accused. 

The  traditions  of  the  Connecticut  valley  are  so  full  of  Indian  lore 
that  we  scarcely  need  to  be  reminded  that  the  redskins,  after  the  first 
period  of  peaceful  settlement  had  passed,  were  a  continual  source 
of  torment  to  the  settlers  and  their  children.  With  the  Nonotucks, 
the  Pocumtucks,  the  Agawams,  the  Waronoaks,  the  Squakeags,  the 
Nipmucks,  the  Narragansetts  and  an  occasional  band  of  Mohawks 
wandering  about  the  country,  ever  on  the  alert  for  scalps  and  plunder, 
we  may  easily  imagine   that   a   feeling  of  absolute   security  from  the 


184  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

redskins  was  not  generally  indulged.  Nor  would  the  occasional  mur- 
ders of  men  who  had  wandered  a  little  distance  from  their  homes  in 
South  street,  or  the  slaying  of  men  cutting  wood  in  Paradise,  tend  to 
allay  their  fears. 

In  the  Indian  war,  commonly  known  as  King  Philip's  war,  North- 
ampton played  a  prominent  part.  Although,  contrary  to  the  impres- 
sion of  many,  no  Northampton  men  lost  their  lives  in  the  Bloody 
Brook  massacre,  her  sons  rendered  valiant  service  in  the  later  defence 
of  Deerfield,  Northfield,  Hatfield,  Turners  Falls,  and  in  nearly  all  the 
more  important  battles  with  the  Indians,  and  against  the  name  of 
many  a  promising  Northampton  youth  is  to  be  found  the  inscription, 
"Killed  by  Indians  at  Pasquamscot,"  or  "Pascommuck,"  or  "Capawon." 

So  great  was  the  danger  to  the  village  thought  to  be  that  in  No- 
vember, 1675,  martial  law  was  declared  and  a  palisade  erected,  be- 
ginning at  Bridge  street  above  the  cemetery,  extending  down  Pom- 
eroy  Terrace  to  Mill  River,  thence  along  the  north  bank  of  the  river 
to  the  spot  where  we  are  now  seated,  then  to  Plymouth  Inn,  across 
Elm  and  State  streets  to  Park  street,  from  there  to  King  street,  near 
the  French  Catholic  church,  and  back  to  the  starting  point.  Every 
able-bodied  man  was  compelled  to  work  at  its  construction  under 
penalty  of  a  fine  of  five  shillings  for  each  day  he  absented  himself 
from  the  work.  The  old  church  and  school-house  was  used  as  a  guard- 
house. 

On  March  14,  1676,  occurred  the  only  serious  and  organized 
attack  on  the  town.  Some  five  hundred  or  six  hundred  Indians,  pos- 
sibly under  command  of  Philip  himself,  attacked  the  palisade  at  three 
points,  the  first  on  the  east  side  of  Round  Hill,  the  second  at  King 
street,  the  third  and  main  point  of  attack  being  at  the  lower  end  of 
Pleasant  street.  At  this  point  the  palisade  was  broken  through  and 
in  the  fight  which  followed  four  men  and  one  girl  were  killed  and  six 
men  wounded.     The  death  of  Philip  in   1676  put  an  end  to  the  war. 

In  King  William's  war  Northampton  played  no  important  part, 
and  in  Queen  Anne's  war  the  Indians  in  unorganized  bands  were  the 
main  source  of  trouble.  In  this  connection  the  Rev.  Solomon  Stod- 
dard suggested  that  dogs  be  trained  to  run  down  the  Indians,  on  the 
ground  that  they  were  no  better  than  wolves,  and  deserved  no  better 
treatment  —  surely  a  strange  suggestion  to  come  from  a  minister 
of  the  gospel.  It  was  in  this  war  that  Caleb  Lyman,  a  native  of  North- 
ampton and  one  of  the  greatest  scouts  in  all  colonial  history,  by  his 
shrewdness  and  energy  thwarted  a  plan  for  the  capture  of  the  valley 
towns  by  the  combined  French  and  Indian  forces. 

In  the  next  French  and  Indian  war,  known  as  King  George's 
war,  while  there  was  no  actual  fighting  in  this  and  neighboring  settle- 
ments, the  town  was  fortified.  Of  greater  interest  is  the  fact  that  the 
Northampton  company  did  yeoman  service  in  Sir  William  Pepper- 
ell's  historic   capture   of   Louisburg   at   Cape    Breton,  under  command 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  185 

of  Col.  Seth  Pomeroy,  with  Joseph  Hawley  as  regimental  chaplain. 
In  a  letter  to  his  wife  Col.  Pomeroy  stated  that  the  Northampton 
company  saw  the  hardest  service  and  suffered  the  greatest  exposure 
of  any  company  in  the  command. 

Again  in  the  French  and  Indian  war  of  1754-1763,  Pomeroy  and 
Hawley  rendered  distinguished  service,  the  latter  having  laid  aside  the 
chaplain's  Bible  for  the  soldier's  sword,  and  Northampton  furnished 
two  hundred  and  seventeen  soldiers  in  this  war. 

When  we  bear  in  mind  the  fact  that  in  1776  the  population  of 
the  town  was  only  eighteen  hundred  souls,  men,  women  and  children, 
we  may  form  some  idea  of  the  willingness  of  Northampton's  sons  to 
fight  the  battles  of  the  mother  country  and  her  sister  settlements. 

The  effects  of  the  troublous  times  in  Boston  over  the  passage  of 
the  Stamp  Act  in  1765  were  not  unfelt  in  the  quiet  Connecticut  val- 
lev.  Our  own  Major  Joseph  Hawley  dared  to  stand  up  boldly  in  the 
assembly  of  the  General  Court  and  declare  "The  Parliament  of  Great 
Britain  has  no  right  to  legislate  for  us,"  and  the  same  intrepid 
patriot  introduced  a  resolution  condemning  the  right  which  the  king 
claimed  of  appointing  officers  and  fixing  their  compensation.  James 
Otis,  himself  a  leader  in  the  agitation  against  British  power  and  ag- 
gression, declares  that  Joseph  Hawley  was  one  of  the  bravest,  truest 
patriots  that  he  had  ever  known. 

But  enthusiastic  as  Hawley  was,  his  fellow  townsmen  did  not 
so  readily  imbibe  the  anti-British  enthusiasm.  Northampton  was 
slow  to  respond  to  the  calls  for  Committees  of  Safety  and  Correspond- 
ence, even  after  the  Boston  Massacre  and  Boston  Tea  Party;  so  slow 
as  to  call  down  upon  herself  the  charge  of  lukewarmness  in  her  atti- 
tude, if  not  even  disaffection  tow^ard  the  interests  of  her  fellow  set- 
tlements and  the  colonies  at  large;  but  in  1774  a  Committee  of  Cor- 
respondence, consisting  of  Joseph  Hawley,  Seth  Pomeroy,  John  Ly- 
man and  Jacob  Parsons,  was  chosen. 

The  conservative  old  town  had  at  last  awakened,  and,  as  is  so 
often  true,  the  temper  that  was  not  easily  stirred  burned  with  the 
greater   fierceness   when   once   aroused. 

Hawley  and  Pomeroy  were  sent  as  representatives  to  the  first 
and  second  Provincial  Congresses  of  1774  and  1775,  and  Hawley  and 
Lyman  to  the  third,  in  1775.  A  company  of  one  hundred  minute- 
men  was  organized  with  Jonathan  Allen  as  captain;  the  selectmen 
bought  three  hundred  and  forty-five  pounds  of  powder,  a  large  amount 
for  those  days,  seven  hundred  and  twenty  pounds  of  lead,  to  be  made 
into  continental  bullets,  and  a  thousand  gunflints — all  to  be  used  in 
resisting  England's  attempts  to  trample  down  the  growing  spirit  of 
independence  in  her  American  colonies. 

And  all  this  preparation  was  none  too  soon.  At  eleven  o'clock 
on  the  2ist  day  of  April,  1775,  a  horseman  galloped  up  the  village 
street  with  the  news  from  Lexington  and  Concord.     The  church  bell 


186  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

was  furiously  rung  as  a  signal  for  the  assembling  of  the  minute-men : 
the  ploughman  left  his  blade  in  the  furrow,  the  artisan  his  tools  at  the 
bench,  stopping  only  to  seize  his  powder  horn  and  musket,  and  all 
ran  to  the  green  in  front  of  the  old  church,  where  militant  Christianity 
as  well  as  the  Gospel  of  Peace  had  been  preached.  The  men,  forming 
in  line,  the  Rev.  John  Hooker  asked  the  divine  blessing  on  the  right- 
eous cause  for  which  they  were  ready  to  lay  down  their  lives.  Col. 
Seth  Pomeroy  made  a  brief  address  —  need  we  say  that  it  was  fervid 
and  patriotic  ? — and  at  three  o'clock  the  little  company  was  on  the 
march.  That  night  they  camped  at  Belchertown;  the  next  the  tired 
men  spread  their  blankets  on  the  green  at  Brookfield ;  the  night  after 
Shrewsbury  was  reached,  and  as  the  sun  sank  out  of  sight  that 
24th  of  April  Northampton's  faithfvil  band  of  minute-men  marched 
into  Concord  Square  and  Capt.  Allen  reported  himself  and  men  ready 
for  duty. 

Although  the  Northampton  company  was  in  the  vicinity  of  Boston, 
Gen.  Pomeroy  was  the  only  Northampton  man  in  the  fight  at  Bunker 
Hill,  but  the  honor  of  the  town  was  nobly  upheld  by  its  one  repre- 
sentative. The  company  performed  with  credit  its  part  in  the  seige 
of  Boston.  In  Benedict  Arnold's  ill-fated  attack  on  Quebec,  on  the 
last  day  of  the  year  1775,  nine  Northampton  men  were  actively  en- 
gaged. 

To  follow  the  course  of  the  men  from  this  town  throughout  the 
Revolution  would  involve  a  more  or  less  complete  history  of  the  en- 
tire war,  but  these  instances,  quoted  from  the  records  of  the  early  days 
of  the  conflict,  show  the  spirit  which  animated  the  young  men  who 
answered  the  call  to  a  patriot's  duty. 

But  in  praising  the  deeds  of  arms  we  must  not  forget  the  quiet 
but  no  less  effective  efforts  of  those  who  remained  in  the  seclusion 
of  their  homes;  old  men,  too  infirm  to  bear  the  rigors  of  a  campaign; 
the  women,  who  gladly  gave  the  very  blankets  from  their  beds  when 
the  call  came  for  more  protection  for  the  soldiers  in  the  field,  and 
even  the  girls  who  knit  the  socks  that  were  to  be  sent  to  the  camps, 
and  the  boys  who  cast  the  bullets  for  their  fathers  and  older  brothers 
to  use  in  battle,  felt  that  they  were  having  a  part  in  the  great  struggle 
for  Independence,   and  who  will  question  their  right  to  the-  claim  ? 

The  records  show  that  Northampton  furnished  to  the  war  of  the 
Revolution  three  hundred  and  twenty-seven  men,  no  less  than  one 
soldier  for  every  five  inhabitants.     Truly  a  noble  record  ! 

There  is  but  one  thing  lacking  to  make  our  pride  in  the  part  which 
the  town  played  in  the  Revolution  complete,  and  that  is  the  fact  that 
when  the  news  of  the  adoption  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence 
came  there  did  not  seem  to  be  any  realizing  sense  of  its  full  meaning, 
and  while  all  the  towns  about  held  mass  meetings  for  the  ratification 
of  this  momentous  step,  Northampton  failed  to  put  herself  on  record 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  187 

by  any  vote  or  resolution.  But  the  activity  of  her  sons  and  daugh- 
ters in  the  actual  struggle  may  well  atone  for  any  apparent  lack  of 
interest  in  and  sympathy  with  an  act  framed  hundreds  of  miles  away, 
whose  importance  they  were  unable  fully  to  understand. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  a  half-dozen  years  of  unrest  throughout 
the  country  ensued,  years  which  the  historian,  John  Fiske,  has  well 
called  "The  Critical  Period  of  American  History."  The  war  debt 
averaged  two  hundred  dollars  for  every  householder  in  the  country, 
and  the  average  family  saw  scarcely  fifty  dollars  in  actual  money 
throughout  the  whole  year. 

New  England,  and  the  Connecticut  valley  in  particular,  were  in 
an  especially  deplorable  condition  from  this  state  of  affairs,  and  when 
a  further  tax  was  laid  by  the  state  legislature  to  supplement  the  funds 
of  Congress  and  the  courts  began  to  impose  sentence  for  non-payment 
of  taxes,  we  can  hardly  wonder  that  an  insurrection — the  affair  known 
in  history  as  Shays'  Rebellion — broke  out. 

Court  was  appointed  to  convene  in  Northampton  the  last  Tues- 
day in  August,  1786.  Foreseeing  further  prosecutions  and  convic- 
tions, for  non-payment  of  taxes,  fifteen  hundred  of  the  followers  of 
Shays,  armed  with  muskets,  swords  and  clubs,  gathered  around  the 
court-house,  determined  that  it  "should  not"  meet,  and  so  vigorous 
was  the  demonstration  that  the  court  was  actually  unable  to  sit,  and 
popular  opinion  was  so  strongly  with  the  insurrectionists  that  it  was 
some  little  time  before  the  court  was  again  held  regularly  in  North- 
ampton. It  must  not  be  supposed  that  all  these  fifteen  hundred 
men  belonged  in  the  town,  for  the  entire  population  was  but  little 
larger  than  the  mob.  Many  overburdened  taxpayers  had  flocked  to 
the  county  seat  from  Hatfield  and  Pelham,  from  Hadley  and  Prescott, 
from  Plainfield  and  Amherst,  all  roused  to  the  point  of  violent  demon- 
stration by  what  they  felt  to  be  the  injustice  of  the  government,  ready 
to  wreak  vengeance  on  the  visible  representatives  of  governmental 
power,  the  courts. 

After  this  first  outbreak,  however,  Northampton  took  no  active 
part  in  the  rebellion  other  than  to  give  welcome  and  shelter  to  abotit 
two  hundred  and  fifty  of  Shays'  men  on  their  way  back  to  Amherst 
and  Pelham  after  their  disastrous  conflict  with  the  state  militia  under 
General  Shepard  at  the  Springfield  Armory.  It  is  interesting,  though 
not  strictly  relevant  to  local  history,  to  know  that  fourteen  of  the 
leaders,  who  were,  in  the  letter  and  spirit  of  the  law,  guilty  of  treason 
against  the  state,  and  had  been  condemned  to  death,  were  reprieved 
by  Gov.  James  Bowdoin  and  pardoned  by  his  successor.  Gov.  John 
Hancock,  though  Samuel  Adams,  then  president  of  the  state  senate, 
sturdily  opposed  the  action  of  the  Governor  in  thus  using  the  par- 
doning power. 

Our  rapid  review  of  the  history  of  the  town  has  covered  a  full 
century  and  a  half,  and  the  progress  of  the  nineteenth  century  looms 


188  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

up  before  us;  that  century  which  one  writer  says  saw  more  advance- 
ment in  human  arts  and  culture  than  ah  the  four  thousand  years  that 
had  preceded  it.  The  task  of  tracing  the  growth  and  progress  which 
that  century  has  brought  to  Northampton  is  greater  than  j^our  pa- 
tience would  bear  today,  but  the  story  is  written  all  about  us,  in  gran- 
ite and  enduring  masonry,  in  the  evidences  of  commercial  industry, 
and  philanthropic  enterprise.  All  these  tell  of  progress  more  clearly 
than  any  spoken  words  could  do,  and  emphasize  to  our  minds  more 
forcibly  than  the  most  skilfully  worded  narrative  the  story  of  growth 
and  advancement  from  the  country  village  with  a  population  of  twen- 
ty-two hundred  souls,  which  the  opening  century  beheld,  to  the  thriv- 
ing city  with  ten  times  twenty-two  hundred  loyal  citizens  in  these 
early  days  of  the  twentieth  century. 

Northampton  has  ever  been  the  home  of  men  eminent  in  the 
church,  the  college,  the  state  and  the  nation.  Stoddard,  Edwards, 
Hawley  and  Pomeroy  have  alreadv  been  mentioned  as  sons  in  whose 
fame  a  community  might  well  rest  content;  but  each  generation  has 
sent  out  its  sons  to  take  up  with  honor  and  distinction  the  work  which 
the  fathers  have  left.  Among  them  may  be  mentioned  Thomas  Allen, 
the  "Fighting  Parson";  Timothy  Dwight,  divine,  poet  and  author; 
Caleb  Strong,  for  eleven  years  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  one  of  the 
purest  men  who  ever  occupied  the  gubernatorial  chair,  whose  worth 
was  attested  by  the  fact  that  his  term  of  office  was  the  longest  of  any 
man  who  has  ever  occupied  that  exalted  station;  Isaac  C.  Bates,  United 
States  Senator,  a  colleague  of  Daniel  Webster  and  an  orator  unsur- 
passed in  Western  Massachusetts;  Elijah  H.  Mills,  United  States  Sena- 
tor and  a  lawyer  without  a  superior  in  the  Commonwealth;  Eli  P.  Ash- 
mun,  another  member  of  the  United  States  Senate;  his  son,  George 
Ashmun,  for  three  terms  representative  in  Congress,  and  chairman  of 
the  Republican  Convention  of  i860  which  nominated  Abraham  Lin- 
coln for  the  Presidency;  William  D.  Whitney,  Professor  of  Sanskrit 
and  Modern  Languages  in  Yale  University,  perhaps  the  greatest  lin- 
guist and  philologist  of  modern  times;  Erastus  Hopkins,  clergyman, 
scholar  and  orator;  Charles  E.  Forbes,  whose  magnificent  gift  to  the 
city  is  a  daily  inspiration  to  higher  thought  and  nobler  life;  all  these 
and  many  more  whose  names  and  deeds  are  but  little  less  widely  known, 
have  spread  Northampton's  name  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific, 
and  from  the  Great  Lakes  to  the  Gulf. 

Truly,  the  fathers  have  bequeathed  to  us  a  history  of  which  any 
city  in  the  land  might  well  be  proud.  Truly,  our  jubilation  today 
is  not  based  merely  on  the  lapse  of  uneventful  years. 

Truly,  the  influence  of  this  grand  old  town  will  be  felt  in  the  fu- 
ture generations  and  ages,  as  it  has  been  in  the  two  centuries  and  a 
half  just  closing,  and  in  the  years  to  come  may  it  be  said,  as  in  the 
days  now  past,  "Her  children  arise  up  and  call  her  blessed." 


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MR.  Campion  said  that  he  was  addressing  the  children  and  the 
future  citizens  of  Northampton.  It  had  occurred  to  him 
that  they  would  like  to  obtain  some  idea  of  Northampton 
in  Old  England.  As  in  this  Celebration  there  is  much  dealing  with 
history,  he  would  mention  some  things  connected  with  the  history  of 
his  older  city,  for  it  was  very  old.  Where  here  we  considered  a  building 
very  old  if  it  can  number  250  years,  in  Northampton,  England,  there 
are  buildings  nine  hundred  years  old,  dating  back  to  the  time  almost 
when  William  the  Conqueror  conquered  England  and  made  Northamp- 
ton a  family  possession. 

From  this  point  Mr.  Campion  went  on  with  an  interesting  narra- 
tion of  the  building  of  the  first  Norman  church  and  castle  in  Old  North- 
ampton, the  history  of  which  was  connected  with  the  life  of  that  re- 
markable figure  in  history,  Bishop  Thomas  a  Becket.     These  buildings 


190  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

are  still  standing,  as  also  a  beautiful  structure  known  as  Queen  Eleanor's 
Cross,  now  500  years  old,  of  which  Mr.  Campion  told  a  curious 
story  of  betrayal  and  devotion.  The  ancient  town  was  nearly 
destroyed  by  fire,  in  1675,  ^^^  only  two  domestic  buildings  exist  to- 
day that  were  built  before  the  fire,  and  these  are  related,  in  a  measure, 
to  the  religious  and  political  traditions  upon-  which  this  Northampton 
in  New  England  was  founded. 

One  house  was  erected  by  a  Welshman,  and  the  motto  is  still  to 
be  seen,  "Without  God,  without  everything."  The  other  is  known 
as  Cromwell  House,  and  tradition  says  Cromwell  slept  in  it  the  night 
before  the  battle  of  Naseby — June  14,  1645 — nine  years  before  vour 
city  was  founded.  For  the  town  was  with  the  parliament,  and  rejoiced 
when  Charles  the  First's  power  was  shattered  on  Nasebv  field,  which 
is  only  about  fourteen  miles  from  Northampton. 

Mr.  Campion  concluded  as  follows- 

It  would  be  easy  to  occupy  a  long  time  by  telling  you  about  the 
history  of  the  old  town,  from  which  your  city  was  named.  But  it 
would  all  go  to  show  that  Northampton's  citizens  in  the  seventeenth 
century  were  remarkable  for  their  simple  faith  and  stern  devotion 
to  duty — that  they  were  men,  men  with  strong  convictions  and  un- 
bendable  backbone,  and  that  their  womenfolk  were  of  the  same  heroic 
mould  as  themselves.  It  was  of  such  stuff  that  the  early  settlers 
were  made,  whom  the  old  country  sent  over  to  form  your  settlements 
here — to  create  a  new  Northampton  in  Massachusetts. 

Shall  I  tell  you  one  thing  that  makes  it  especially  interesting  to 
me  to  be  here  at  this  Celebration,  and  to  have  the  opportunitv  of  sav- 
ing a  few  words  to  you?  An  ancestor  of  George  Washington  held 
the  office  of  Mayor  of  Northampton  twice  in  the  sixteenth  century, 
and  another  ancestor  of  his  lies  in  a  cjuiet  grave  in  a  parish  church 
within  half  a  dozen  miles  of  Northampton.  On  that  grave  is  a  me- 
morial brass  bearing  the  Washington  coat  of  arms;  and  on  that  coat 
of  arms  are  the  stars  and  the  bars,  which  gave  you  "The  Stars  and 
Stripes" — your  national  flag. 

Yours  is  a  beautiful  city,  a  diamond  of  the  first  water,  set  in  a 
landscape  of  exquisite  beauty.  Your  lines  have  fallen  in  pleasant 
places,  you  have  a  goodh^  heritage.  You  have  a  noble  ancestry  — 
men  and  women  from  whom  it  is  your  proud  privilege  to  have  de- 
scended. Young  men  and  maidens,  great  principles  are  yours,  glo- 
rious traditions — see  that  you  hand  these  inestimable  blessings  un- 
impaired to  those  who  may  come  after  you.  You  owe  it  to  those  who 
went  before  you,  to  the  men  and  women  who,  by  their  struggles,  their 
sufferings,  their  triumphs,  made  possible  the  blessings  vou  now  en  jo  v. 
You  owe  it  to  those  who  come  after  you  that  the  priceless  heritage 


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of  your  rights  and  liberties  shall  in  nowise  be  lessened  or  its  lustre 
dimmed  by  anything  you  may  do  or  say.  Most  of  the  men  who  came 
to  make  this  new  world  for  civil  and  religious  liberty  were  not  great 
men,  as  the  world  counts  greatness;  although  they  were  truly  great 
in  all  those  qualities  which  are  the  marks  of  real  excellence.  But 
they  made  the  world  better  for  those  who  were  to  come.  An  old  shoe- 
maker named  Timothy  Bennett — we  are  great  boot  and  shoemakers 
in  Old  Northampton — lived  near  London  in  the  eighteenth  centurv. 
A  path  through  a  Royal  Park  —  Bushe)^  Park — made  the  connection 
between  two  villages  short  and  convenient  for  the  inhabitants,  of  whom 
Timothy  was  one.  A  noble  lord  who  was  ranger  of  the  park  tried 
to  close  the  path  and  so  compel  the  people  of  one  village  to  go  a  long 
way  round  to  get  to  the  other  village.  Timothy  said  it  should  not 
be  done  if  he  could  help  it.  He  had  saved  a  little  mone}^  and  he  used 
it  all  to  fight  the  great  lord  in  the  English  Law  Courts.  He  won.  When 
asked  why  he,  a  poor  shoemaker,  troubled  to  fight  this  question  — 
how  he  dared  to  contest  it  with  a  great  lord — he  modestly  replied, 
he  had  always  had  a  desire  to  leave  the  world  better  than  he  found 
it.  Now  if  the  same  spirit,  strengthened  by  the  remembrance  of  the 
fidelity  and  deeds  of  a  noble  ancestry,  only  actuate  you,  this  beauti- 
ful city  of  yours  and  its  people  may  look  forward  to  a  future  still  more 
glorious  than  its  past. 


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THE    BALL    G  A  M  E  3^  M  0  N  D  A  T    A  ET  ERNOON 

WHATEVER  the  future  of  the  great  American  game  of  base- 
ball- may  be,  it  would  be  unfair  to  lovers  of  the  game  in 
this  generation  and  make  an  imperfect  history  of  the  Cele- 
bration, not  to  include  some  mention  of  the  game  provided  by  the 
Committee  on  Sports  and  Games,  and  played  on  the  driving  park 
Monday  afternoon. 

Under  the  management  of  George  P.  O'Donnell  and  William  M. 
Kiely,  Northampton  was  boasting  in  the  Quarter-Millennial  year  of 
her  history  of  about  the  best  baseball  team  she  had  ever  placed  in 
the  field.  It  could  have  been  excelled  only  by  the  famous  old  "Eagle" 
baseball  nine  of  Florence,  some  twentv-five  years  before,  but  the 
"Eagles"  were  composed  wholly  of  home-bred  men  and  the  Northamp- 
ton nine  of  1904  was  made  up,  as  was  the  custom  of  the  time,  of  care- 
fully chosen  and  paid  men,  found  in  different  parts  of  the  country. 

The  game  played  Monday  was  between  the  home  nine  and  the 
Springfield  league  team,  and  it  was  fondly  hoped  by  the  home  "rooters" 
that  Springfield  would  be  beaten  again,  as  she  once  had  been  a  few 
days  before,  by  the  home  team.  But  the  Quarter-Millennial  Celebra- 
tion was  not  destined  to  have  this  victorv  added  to  its  otherwise  com- 
plete record  of  triumphs.  The  game  was  free,  and  it  was  estimated 
that  three  thousand  people  witnessed  the  struggle.  It  was  probably 
the  biggest  crowd  that  ever  saw  a  baseball  game  in  Northampton. 
Not  only  was  the  grand -stand  filled,  but  around  behind  the  fielders 
there  was  an  unbroken  line  of  spectators.  To  describe  the  game  in 
detail  would  be  only  to  repeat  a  mass  of  technical  phrases  which 
might  or  might  not  be  interesting  to  future  generations  who  read  this 
history  of  a  celebration.  It  is  probably  sufficient  to  say  that  the  Spring- 
field team  came  to  Northampton  determined  to  win,  and  for  this  pur- 
pose secured  "Jack"  Hess,  the  best  pitcher  in  the  Connecticut  league; 
so  that  when  the  game  closed,  with  a  score  of  3  to  o,  the  wonder  was 
not  that  Springfield  secured  three  runs,  or  that  Northampton  did  not 
score  at  all,  but  that  the  visitors  did  not  run  up  their  score  to  the  twen- 
ties or  thirties.  But  the  Northampton  nine  had  at  least  the  satisfac- 
tion of  keeping  the  Springfielders'  ambitions  within  reasonable  limits. 
As  a  matter  of  record,  the  score  is  herewith  appended: 


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Connor,  3b      3 

Connors,  2b    3 

Flanagan,  If 5 

Hemming,  ib  .  .  .  .  4 

Hale,  rf 3 

O'Connor,  cf     ....  4 

Hannifin,  ss    4 

CassicW,  cf    3 

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Roe,  c 3  o  5 

O'Brien,  rf    3  o  o 

Sturgis,  2b    3  o  o 

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Kane,  p 4  o  i 


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Runs — Flanagan,  Hemming,  Connor.  Total  bases — Springfield,  10;  North- 
ampton, 4.  Sacrifice  hits — Connors,  2.  Stolen  base — Connor.  Two-base  hits — 
Hemming,  Hess,  Daly.  First  base  on  balls — Connor,  Kane,  Connors  2,  Hale. 
Left  on  bases — Springfield,  8;  Northampton,  4.  Struck  out  by  Hess — Cainp- 
bell,  Crook,  O'Brien,  Daly,  Roe,  Sturgis,  Kane;  by  Kane — O'Connor,  Hannifin 
2,  Hale,  Flanagan.  Batter  hit  by  Kane — Cassidy.  Double  play — Crook  and 
Kane.     Time — One    hour,    twenty    minutes.      Umpire — Reardon. 


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CONCERT 


BAND  concerts  were  given  Monday  afternoon  and  evening  by 
the  Northampton  Band,  Albert  N.  Baldwin,  leader,  at  Bridge- 
street  park.  This  local  organization,  effectively  organized,  gave 
excellent  satisfaction  and  played  with  a  good  degree  of  artistic  finish 
these  programs,  which  were  heard  by  thousands  of  people: 


Concert  at  2.30  p.  m. 

March:      "  Old  Friends," 
Overture:      "  Bohemian  Girl," 
Waltz:      "Blue  Danube," 
Selection:      "Down  on  the  Farm," 
Two  Hungarian  Dances, 
Serenade:      "Just  for  Tonight," 
Two  Step:      "Bedelia," 


W.  H.  Thomas 

Balfe 

Sirauss 

Von  Tihcr 

Brahms 

French 

Arr.  by  O.  E.  Sutton 


Concert  at  S  p.  m. 

1.  March:      "Vashti," 

2.  Overture:      "Rayinond," 

3  Mazurka:      "  Russi  La  Czarini," 

4.  Ballet  Music:     "Opera  Naila," 

5.  Serenade:     "Cupid's  Channs," 

6.  Character  Sketch:      "A  Bit  of  Essence," 

7.  Two  Step:      "Championship," 


Fillmore 

A.  Thomas 

Ganne 

De  Liebes 

Miller 

Rollinson 

A  Torse 


The  band  also  participated  in  the  parade  Tuesday  and  provided 
music  for  the  bancpet  Tuesday  afternoon  and  the  display  of  fireworks 
at  the  driving  park  in  the  evening. 


POEMS        CONTRIBUTED 

TWO  poems  were  received  by  the  Celebration  authorities  and 
will  be  found  following. 
The  first  poem  was  contributed  by  Charles  M.  Shepherd, 
who,  writing  from  Hebron,  Neb.,  and  acknowledging  the  invitation 
to  attend  the  Celebration,  said  that  he  was  a  great-grandson  of  Dr. 
Levi  Shepherd  and  Mary  Pomeroy  Shepherd.  Mr.  Shepherd  him- 
self is  an  author  and  lecturer  of  considerable  renown,  whose  services 
are  much  in  request  through  the  Redpath  Lyceum  Bureau,  and  his 
letter  and  poem  were  referred  by  the  Invitations  Committee  to  the 
Executive  Committee,  who  voted  to  accept  the  poem  and  turn  it  over 
to  the  press. 

Z\ic  ipaalm  ot  ©ur  jfatbers 

The  earth  has  had  its  singer. 

To  chant  its  joy  and  its  pain, 
But  bra\'e  New  England's  Psalter 

Bore  the  world  on  its  refrain 

Sometimes  we  hear  at  evening 

The  song  that  our  fathers  sang, 
Long  shores  of  mena'ry  streaming, 

As  clear  as  it  ever  rang. 

Out  of  the  forest  splendor. 

Like  the  sound  of  a  rifle  shot, 
In  cradle  music  most  tender. 

Comes  the  chord  well-nigh  forgot. 

They  sang  o'er  age  long  bondage, 

The  requiem  of  its  death. 
Then  gave  triumphant  homage 

To  God,  in  reverent  breath. 

The  organ  reeds  of  ocean 

Caught  the  anthem  Freedom  gave, 
Bearing  that  hour's  devotion 

To  every  shore  with  a  slave. 

Heard  in  the  falling  timber 

And  the  axeman's  mighty  stroke. 
Heard  by  the  steadied  timber 

Where  the  battle  cannon  spoke. 

Heard  where  the  toiling  fisher 

Spun  out  the  length  of  his  net. 
Heard  where  the  navy's  sailor 

His  glorious  banner  set. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  197 


The  world  had  nc-\-er  hstened 

To  a  finer  note  than  theirs, 
Who  reared,  thousj;h  trial  chastened 

That  altar  free  for  their  prayers. 

Then  uji  through  twilight  shadows. 
Fragrant  from  old-time  iiowers, 

The  breeze  from  wood  and  meadows 
Bore  the  note  of  fairer  hours. 

Down  from  the  great  log  shelter, 

When  the  latch-string  outward  swung 

Out  from  the  humming  spinner, 
When  the  hearthside  music  rung. 

Then  b_v  the  lowly  cradle. 

From  the  noble  walnut  hewn. 

From  round  the  laden  table. 
On  Thanksgiving  afternoon, 

Voices  that  bore  life's  story. 
As  the  passing  seasons  grew, 

To  sing  in  fireplace  glory. 
The  homeland  music  true. 

Five  times  in  battle  ardor 

Rang  war's  jubilant  refrain. 
And  five  times  halter  charger 

Proud,  was  homeward  turned  again. 

The  psalms  yon  heroes  uttered 
Were  spoken  for  sons  unborn, 

Brave  sons  that  never  faltered 
When  their  colors  fair  were  worn. 

God  grant  that  we,  descendants 

Of  the  nation's  royal  stock. 
May  ever  stand  defendants 

Of  right  in  the  battle  shock. 

Teach  us,  O  Lord,  the  measure 
That  shall  cheer  a  struggling  race; 

May  we  find  truth  the  treasure 

That  shall  round  our  years  with  grace. 


Then  sometime,  like  a  leaven. 

Midst  the  great  Republic's  3'ears, 

Our  sons  shall  hear  love's  paean 
Quickening  a  world  with  cheers. 

Filled  with  a  mighty  yearning 
To  work  Immanuel's  will, 

Their  lips  with  message  burning 
In  new  Pentecosts  shall  thrill. 


198  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

The  following  sonnet,  written  by  Frances  Stoddard  Murray  of 
Cardross,  Scotland,  came  to  the  Executive  Committee  and  was  given 
to  the  press.  Mrs.  Murray  is  the  oldest  daughter  of  Arthur  Stoddard 
and  granddaughter  of  the  late  Solomon  Stoddard,  for  so  many  years 
clerk  of  the  Hampshire  courts,  and  who  died  in  i860.  The  poem  was 
received   Saturday,   upon   the   eve   of  the   Celebration. 

Sonnet  to  IHortbanipton 

For  its  230th   Aintiveysary 

Northampton!  fair  thy  hiUs,  thy  valley  sweet. 
And  dear  are  thy  elm-shaded  paths  to  me. 
Who  fain  would  at  thy  bidding  cross  the  sea, 
My  kindred  and  thy  soil  once  more  to  greet. 
And  might  I  go  once  more  to  them  and  thee, 
How  gladly  would  I  haste  my  willing  feet 
To  pass  the  pleasant  June  in  joyance  free. 

Take  greeting  from  me  now,  my  Father's  town ! 

My  spirit  is  with  you  on  this  high  day. 

To  wish  that  you  may  grow  in  strength  alway. 

In  stately  beavity,  and  in  fair  renown. 

With  learning  of  the  academic  gown. 

Thus,  though  I  may  not  leave  my  Scottish  home. 

My  sympathy  and  \o\e  shall  cross  the  ocean  foam. 


CONCERT      Br 
FOCAL     CLUB 


■THE     NORTHAMPTON 
-      MONDAY     EVENING 


THE  Northampton  Vocal  Club,  which  had  such  an  important 
part  in  the  musical  service  of  the  Celebration,  has  achieved 
fame  as  one  of  the  best  male  chorus  organizations  in  the 
country,  ranking  with  the  leading  choruses  in  the  larger  centers,  and, 
lest  this  may  seem  careless  praise,  the  statement  here  deserves  record, 

that  more  than  one  well -qualified  musical 
critic,  from  Boston  and  New  York,  present 
at  the  Service  of  vSong  and  the  concert, 
expressed  themselves  surprised  at  the  musi- 
cal showing  made  here.  They  said  they  w^ere 
looking  for  an  exhibition  of  country  music, 
but  found  a  musical  organization  equal  to 
the  best  in  the  large  cities.  But  so  it  has 
long  been  with  Northampton,  as  every  one 
well  versed  in  its  historv  knows.  The  club 
was  organized  in  February,  1896,  by  the 
leading  singers  of  the  towm,  and  under  the 
direction  of  Ralph  L.  Baldwin  accomplished 
the  most  finished  artistic  product,  and  in- 
stantly sprang  into  high  favor  among  the 
music  lovers  of  the  city.  For  eight  seasons 
it  had  given  two  concerts  a  season,  which  attracted  much  attention  and 
gave  the  club  an  extended  reputation.  The  foot-note  on  the  250th 
Anniversary  Program  gives  an  idea  of  the  scope  of  the  work  of  the 
club.* 

When  plans  for  the  250th  Anniversary  wxre  being  made,  the  Vo- 
cal Club  voted  to  offer  its  services  to  the  committee,  and  arrangements 
were  made  for  a  concert  by  this  organization,  to  precede  the  recep- 
tion to  be  extended  to  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth.  This  con- 
cert, which  was  given  in  the  pavilion  Monday  evening,  proved  to  be  one 
of  the  most  popular  features  of  the  Celebration.  Unique  in  the  annals 
of  anniversarv  observances,  the  concert  was  a  most  gracious  offering 
of  the  choicest  musical  art  of  the  citv. 


Ralph     L  .     Baldwin 


*  "  During  the  eight  seasons  of  its  existence,  the  club  has  given  seventeen  concerts,  including 
the  one  at  Northampton,  and  three  in  other  places.  The  compositions  given  number  110,  represent- 
ing 69  composers.  The  club  has  been  assisted  by  34  vocal  soloists,  by  orchestra  four  times,  and  by- 
string  quartets  twice." 


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The  pavilion  began  to  attract  the  people  in  anticipation  of  the 
event,  early  in  the  evening.  The  weather  conditions  were  more  fa- 
vorable than  for  the  Sunday  evening  service,  the  atmosphere  being 
clearer  and  the  heat  less  oppressive.  Within  the  pavilion  seats  were 
reserved  on  the  stage  for  the  Governor  and  his  party  and  other 
seats  in  front  of  the  stage  were  reserved  for  the  invited  guests  of  the 
city.  The  scene  was  one  long  to  be  remembered.  At  eight  o'clock 
the  pavilion  was  crowded  to  its  utmost  capacity,  many  being  unable 
to  find  places  within  the  enclosure.  The  club,  numbering  fifty  men, 
occupied  seats  on  the  raised  platform,  in  the  center  of  the  stage,  w4th 
the  Boston  Festival  Orchestra  of  thirteen  men  and  the  pianist,  Mrs. 
Albert  E.  Brown,  immediately  in  front.  The  entrance  of  Governor 
and  Mrs.  Bates,  the  Governor's  staff  and  council,  was  impressive.  As 
the  party  entered  and  were  escorted  to  their  seats,  the  orchestra  played 
"Hail  to  the  Chief";  the  audience  promptly  arose  and  remained  stand- 
ing until  the  Governor  was  seated.  The  director  of  the  concert,  Ralph 
L.  Baldwin,  appeared  and  the  opening  number  on  the  program  was 
at  once  taken  up. 

The  work  of  the  club  was  ecjual  to  its  highest  standard  of  artis- 
tic effect.  In  the  heavier  concerted  numbers  the  result  with  the  male 
voices  and  the  orchestra  was  thrilling.  The  lighter  numbers  suffered 
somewhat  on  account  of  the  poor  acoustic  properties  of  the  open  pa- 
vilion. The  club  was  given  an  enthusiastic  reception  and  the  applause 
was  especially  noticeable  at  the  close  of  Mr.  Baldwin's  composition, 
"The  Hymn  Before  Action,"  which  the  club  sang  with  inspiring  effect. 
The  orchestral  numbers  were  rendered  with  artistic  finish  and  the 
solo  by  Albert  E.  Brown  was  a  highly  creditable  performance  of  the 
beautiful  bass  aria  from  the  oratorio  of  "The  Creation."  In  response 
to  the  encore  he  gave  a  spirited  rendering  of  Schumann's  "Two  Gren- 
adiers."    The  program  was  as  follows: 

part  ©ne 

1.  "At  Sea,"  Chorus  of  Sailors,  Dudley  Buck 

From  Longfellow's  "Golden  Legend." 

THE    CLUB    WITH    ORCHESTRA 

2.  Overture:      "RuyBlas,"  Felix  Mendelssohn  BartJuhiy 

THE    orchestra 


202 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


3.  "It  was  a  Lover  and  his  Lass," 

Shakespeare's  "As  You  Like  It." 

Music  by  S'Arclicr  Gibson 

THE    CLUB 

4.  Aria:      "  Rolhng  in  Foaming  Billows,"  Franz  Joseph  Haydn 

From  the  Oratorio,  "The  Creation." 

MR.    BROWN   WITH   ORCHESTR.\ 

5.  "Hymn  before  Action," 

Words  by  Ritdyard  Kipling  Music  by  Ralph  L.  Baldwin 

THE    CLUB    WITH    ORCHESTRA 


part  Cwo 

6.     Waltz  Sox g:      "  Wine,  Woman  and  Song," 

THE   CLUB   WITH   ORCHESTRA 


7.     Hungarian  Dance, 


8.      "The  Lamp  in  the  West," 


THE   ORCHESTRA 


THE   CLUB 


Johann  btrauss 

yoliaiincs  Brahms 
Horatio  W.  Parker 


Q.      "The  Nun  of  Nidaros," 

Words  by  Longfellow  Music  by  Daniel  Protheroe 

THE   CLUB   WITH   ORCHESTRA 


FoUowinsf  is  a  list  of  the  active  members  of  the  club : 


Baldwin,  Ralph  L. 
Babbitt,  Lewis  F. 
Barnett,  Henry  E. 
Bingham,  William  H. 
Brown,  Albert  E. 
Campbell,  Gordon 
Chilson,  Haynes  H. 
Clark,  Clifford  M. 
Clark,  Howard  H. 
Connor,  James 
Crosby,  Frank  P. 
Currier,  Harold  N. 
Currier,  Edward  A. 
Deady,  Eugene  F. 
Doerring,  Henry 
Dyer,  Albert  F. 
Eastwood,  Harry  P. 


H. 


Feiker,  William  H. 
Graves,  Harry  P. 
Graves,  Herbert  R. 
Graves,  Thaddeus,  Jr. 
Hanley,  Thomas  F. 
Harris,  Raymond  B. 
Haven,  Edward  A. 
Henne,  Albert  F. 
HiBBERT,  James  J. 
Hitchcock,  John  S. 
Howard,  Edwin  C. 
Kelley,  Herbert  T. 
Lee,  Samuel  W. 
Locke,  Owen 
Martin,  Daniel  A. 
Maynard,  M.  Dewey 
Meekins,  Edward  M. 


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Nash,  J.  Walter 
Nash,  Warner  H. 
Noble,  William 
Porter,  Leo  H. 
PuRRixGTON,  Edward  C. 
Purrington,  Leroy  F. 
Prince,  John 
Readio,  Charles  H. 
Readio,  Frank  M. 
Riley,  Herbert  E. 
Roberts,  Frank  W. 
Sauter,  Charles  L. 


Starkweather,  Frederick  M. 
Starkweather,  Roderick  M. 
Steele,  Roy  W. 
Strong,  John  L. 
Stevens,  Clayton  P. 
Stratton,  Edwin  F. 
Tetro,  Walter  F. 
Whitbeck,  Arthur  B. 
Wellman,  L.  Lee 
Williams,  Henry  L. 
Williston,  Robert  L. 
Witherell,  John  C. 


Eiecutive  Committee 

Henry  L.  Williams,  President 

Haynes  H.  Chilson,  Vice-President 
Edwin  C.  Howard.  Secretary 

William  H.  Feiker,  Treasurer 

Leo  H.  Porter,  Librarian 
Samuel  W.  Lee 

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At  the  conclusion  of  the  concert  announcement  was  made  that 
the  reception  to  the  Governor  would  immediately  follow,  and  almost 
the  entire  assembly  remained  to  avail  themselves  of  the  opportunity 
to  pav  their  respects  to  the  head  of  the  Commonwealth. 

Governor  Bates  stood  at  the  head  of  the  receiving  line,  with  Mrs. 
Bates  on  his  left.  Opposite  them  were  Mayor  Hallett  and  Mrs.  Hal- 
lett,  and  others  in  the  line  were  the  Governor's  staff  officers,  Samuel 
S.  Campion  of  England,  Councilor  and  Mrs.  Richard  W.  Irwin,  Prof. 
Henry  M.  Tyler,  Charles  N.  Clark,  George  Wright  Clark,  Charles  A. 
Clark,  Alexander  L.  Dragon,  Rear  Admiral  Francis  A.  Cook,  and 
Major  Frederick  E.  Pierce  of  Greenfield.  Councilor  Irwin  was  mas- 
ter of  ceremonies,  and  for  over  an  hour  the  people  filed  to  the  front 
of  the  platform  and  exchanged  handshakes  with  the  notabilities. 

This  same  evening  was  illumination  evening,  and  Main  street 
was  most  brilliant  with  light,  the  merchants  adding  to  the  general 
brilliancy  by  lighting  their  stores,  and  many  private  citizens  their 
residences.     The  display  lasted  until  midnight. 


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AIR  Meadow  City  !      Robed   abovit  in  wide 
And  fertile  prairie  —  for  thy  garment's  hem 

Shining  Connecticut  weaves  round  his  sinuous  tide. 
And  bathes  thy  beauteous  feet.     Thy  diadem 
With   Labor's  and  with  Learning's  every  gem 

Is  set,  on  hill  and  plain  and   busy  stream  ; 

Where'er  thy  children  toil  thou  cheerest  them 

With  soft  or  sturdy  nurture.      Limner's  dream 

Scarce  paints  to  match  thee,  as  thy  varied  bounties  teem. 


In  love  and  duty  we,  thy  servants,  bring 

For  joyful  celebration  of  thy  praise. 
And  of  our  loyal  past  this  offering, 

A  picture  of  thy  recent  glorious  days  ; 

Thy  portrait  and  our  memorial  we  raise, 
Proud  of  th}'  past,   and  of  thy  future  sure  — 

Each  storied  page  the  passing  time  displays  , 
Thy  budding  greatness  shall  in  blossom  lure 
Otir   pen,   if  life  to   us   a  stadium   shall   endure 

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THIRD      DAYj^    TUESDAY 


THE    PEOPLE'S    DAT    3^     THE    PARADE 
PRINCIPAL    FEATURE    OF    THE    CELEBRATION 


DURING  the  night  preceding  the  last  day  of  the  Celebration  a 
heavy  storm  raged,  rain  fell  in  torrents,  and    it   seemed   as   if 
all  the  powers  of  the  universe  were  leagued  against  a  successful 
close  of  the  great  event.     But  the  weather  predictions  in  the 
morning  papers  gave  hope  of  a  fair  day,  and  by  seven  o'clock  the  rain 
practically  ceased    falling.      Later  the  sun  shone  otit  at  intervals,  and 
the  day,  although  cloudy,  with  a  lit- 
tle   shower    after    the    parade,    was 
admirably  adapted   to  the  successful 
culmination  of  all  the  closing  events. 
While  the  storm  of  the  night  and 
the  threatening  clouds    of  the  early 
morning,  doubtless  caused  many  peo- 
ple in  other  towns  to  stay  at  home 
this  last  day  of  the  Celebration,  the 
multitude    which    did    appear    taxed 
the  capacity  of  the  city's  streets  and 
transportation  facilities  nearly  to  the 
limit.     Steam   trains   from  all  direc- 
tions arrived  with  many   extra    cars, 
crowded  to  the  doors,  and  those  who 
took  the  electric  cars  were  fortunate 
to  find  a  footing  on  them  anywhere. 

The  great  spectacular  event  of 
the  Celebration  was  now  at  hand,  in 
in  the  long-worked-for  and  long- 
expected  parade.  The  psychological 
moment  of  the  Celebration  had 
arrived.     The    Sunday    services,    the 

music,  and  the  addresses  of  the  previous  day  had  drawn  no  such  crowds. 
Those  days  had  been  pregnant  with  meaning  to  all  thoughtful  lovers 
of  the  old  town;  but  the  services  of  the  Sunday  hours  and  the  exercises 
of  Monday  were,  so  to  speak,  the  prelude  of  the  great  popular  rejoicing 
which  was  yet  to  voice  itself  in  further  decoration  and  the  most  inspiring 


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Chief  Marshal  of  Parade 


MARSHALS     OF     THE     P  A  R  A  D  p: 

Top    row,    left  to    ripht — Captain   Riciurd  W.   Irwix,    Chief    of    Staff;  Sheriff    Jairus    E. 
Clark,  Chief;  Colonel  Henry  L.   Williams. 

Center  —  Captain   Edward   P.   Hall;   Edward   L.   Shaw. 

Bottom  —  .John  .J.    Raleigh,    Frederick   E.  ("hase,   Frederick   f!.   .Jacer. 


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of  pageantry  and  martial 
music.  Now  the  people 
were  prepared  to  show 
their  joy  in  a  spectacle  of 
the  greatest  splendor  that 
could  be  created  with  lim- 
ited time  and  means.  And 
this  popular  love  of  the 
spectacular  has  its  uses, 
even  at  such  a  time. 
When  victorious  armies 
return  to  their  homes, 
there  is  always  the  proud 
marching  procession  of 
thousands  of  human  forms, 
exultant  with  glory,  keep- 
ing step  to  jubilant  bursts 
of  music,  and  the  .success- 
ful culmination  of  all  great 
events  has  always  been 
marked  by  popular  ac- 
claim, in  one  form  or  another,  but  most  generally  in  the  way  described. 
So  that  Tuesday,  the  last  dav  of  the  Celebration,  may  be  called  pecu- 
liarly the  people's  dav.  The  popular  love  of  pageantry,  show,  loud  and 
joyous  music,  beautiful  foims  of  decoration,  and  the  martial  tread  of 
thousands  of  uniformed  men,  was  to  be  gratified;  and  well  the  people 
responded  to  view  the  magnificent  pageant  prepared  to  voice  both 
their  civic  pride  and  to  entertain  them. 

The  enormous  multitude  gathered  upon  the  leading  streets  of  the 
city  had  plenty  to  see  and  hear  before  the  parade  began.  As  fast  as 
the  bands  arrived  they  were  detailed  to  escort  certain  organizations, 
and  marchings  and  countermarchings,  with  the  music,  kept  the  air 
tremulous  with  sound  for  about  two  hours  before  the  organized  column 
of  march  was  ready  to  start.  Company  H.  of  the  Naval  Brigade,  from 
Springfield,  came  in  earlv,  and  wheeled  in  front  of  the  Citv  Hall,  with  a 
true  sea-dog  gait,  and  the  visiting  companies  of  militia,  with  the  home 
Company  I,  inade  a  greater  displav  of  militarv  force  than  Northampton 
has  seen  for  generations,  to  the  delight  of  youthful  beholders  and  the 
admiration  of  all,  especially  the  ladies  and  children. 


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The  crowds  on  Main  street  had  increased  almost  to  a  blockade  a  half 
hour  before  the  procession  appeared,  and  this  notwithstanding  every 
vantage  point  of  view  on  all  the  residence  streets  along  the  line  of  march 
had  been  seized  upon.  Every  window  in  the  business  blocks  of  Main 
street  was  occupied;  the  roofs,  where  available,  were  utilized,  and  the 
sidewalks  were  in  most  places  so  impassable  that  those  determined 
upon  moving  from  one  place  to  another  could  only  do  so  by  rushing 
from  the  sidewalk  into  the  street  and  dodging  the  various  vehicles. 
Had  it  been  a  fairer  day,  with  no  threatening  weather  in  the  night's 
preceding  hours,  it  would  be  difficult  to  say  where  the  larger  crowd 
which  might  then  have  appeared  could  have  been  bestowed.  It  was  a 
multitude  as  it  was,  and,  withal,  an  orderly,  well-behaved  one ;  good- 
natured  and  unselfish;  every  one  seemed  willing  to  give  his  neighbor  as 
good  an  opportunity  as  himself  to  see  what  was  going  on,  and  mothers 
with  small  children  were  treated  with  much  more  forbearance  than 
they  would  meet  with  in  the  larger  cities  upon  similar  occasions. 

The  procession  was  advertised 
to  start  promptly  at  ten  o'clock, 
and  this  time  was  not  nutch  over- 
past when  the  report  of  two  guns, 
fired  by  the  Naval  Battalion,  an- 
nounced to  the  whole  city  that  the 
order,  "  Forward  March,"  had 
been  given,  and  the  line  moved. 
To  thousands  of  impatient  chil- 
dren the  few  minutes  waiting  must 
have  seemed  like  the  "c[uarter  of 
a  millennium"  they  had  read  or 
heard  so  much  about  the  previous 
weeks,  before  the  music  of  the 
first  band  in  the  line  of  march 
was  heard  advancing,  and  Sheriff 
and  Chief  Marshal  Clark  appeared, 
with  his  accompanying  troop  of 
deputies  on  horseback.  Then  it 
was  soon  realized,  by  citizens  and 
visitors,  that  here  was  the  biggest 

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seen — a  pageant  which,  for  charm  and  beauty  of  conception  and 
arrangement,  and  for  intelligent  illustration  and  typification  of  the 
city's  past  and  present,  could  not  have  been  bettered  with  the  means 
and  material  furnished.  The  route  of  the  procession  was  from  its  place 
of  main  formation,  on  Bridge  street,  to  Main,  up  King  to  Summer 
street,  from  there  to  Crescent  street,  Henshaw  avenue,  up  Elm  to  the 
watering-trough,  thence  countermarching  through  Elm  street  to  Main, 
down  Hawley  to  Hotyoke  street,  to  Williams  street  and  Pomeroy 
Terrace  to  Bridge  street.  The  order  of  procession  and  description  of 
the  important  features  will  be  found  following: 

ORDER        OF        PROCESSION 

Sixteen  deputy  sheriffs  of  Hampshire  county:  David  H.  Tillson  of 
Amherst,  Myron  S.  Barton  of  Belchertown,  Lewis  W.  Pettingill  of 
Cummington,  Edward  E.  Janes  of  Easthampton,  George  S.  Buck- 
ner  of  Easthampton,  Josiah  W.  Flint  of  Enfield,  Reuben  Bell  of 
Hadley,  Edward  A.  Allen  of  Huntington,  Edwin  T.  Hervey  of 
Northampton,  Thomas  A.  Orcutt  of  Northampton,  Martin  L. 
Barnes  of  South  Hadlev,  Frederick  W.  Brockway  of  South  Hadley, 
Maurice  Fitzgerald  of  Ware,  Franklin  J.  Browning  of  Ware, 
Henry  A.  Bisbee  of  Williamsburg,  Seth  W.  Kingsley  of  Hatfield  — 
the  entire  force  of  deputies  of  Hampshire  county. 

Jairus  E.  Clark  of  Northampton,  chief  marshal,  and  staff;  Richard  W. 
Irwin  of  Northampton,  chief  of  staff. 

Staff:  Homer  C.  Bliss  of  Florence,  William  A.  Bailey  of  Northampton, 
Louis  F.  Plimpton  of  Florence,  John  T.  Keating  of  Northampton, 
David  T.  Remington  of  Boston,  Eastwood  W.  Thompson  of  North- 
ampton, Seth  S.  AVarner  of  Northampton,  John  L.  Mather  of 
Northampton,  Capt.  Chester  W.  French  of  Northampton,  James 
W.  O'Brien  of  Northampton,  Odell  G.  Webster  of  Easthampton, 
Arthur  J.  Lamontaigne  of  Northampton,  Louis  Dragon  of  North- 
ampton, James  Lathrop  of  Northampton,  in  cow-boy  costume. 

jfirst  division 

Marshal,  Col.  Henry  L.  Williams;  aids,  Charles  R.  Farr,  Thomas  J. 
Hammond,  Malcolm  D.  Patteson. 

Second  Regiment  Band  of  Springfield,  27  pieces.  Francis  W.  Sutherland 
leader  ;  William  O'Brien,  drum  major. 

Third  Battalion  of  the  Second  Regiment  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Mili- 
tia, Major    Frederick   E.  Pierce   of   Greenfield.     Capt.   Edward   E_ 


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Sawtell  of  Springfield,  aid.  Co.  1  of  Northampton,  60  men,  Albert 
G.  Beckmann,  captain;  Charles  S.  Riley,  ist  lieutenant.  Co.  M  of 
Adams,  42  men,  James  A.  Campbell,  captain;  William  O'Brien, 
2d  lieutenant.  Co.  L  of  Greenfield,  43  men,  Lyman  W.  Griswold, 
captain;  Hugh  E.  Adams,  ist  lieutenant;  Herbert  N.  Kelly,  2d 
lieutenant.  Co.  G  of  Springfield,  56  men,  William  C.  Hayes,  captain; 
Edward  J.  Leyden,  ist  lieutenant;  William  Butement,  2d  lieuten- 
ant. Co.  H,  Naval  Brigade  of  Springfield,  as  artillery,  with  two 
guns,  53  men;  Ensign  James  M.  Ropes,  chief  of  company. 

The  Williamsburg  Drum  Corps,  twelve  pieces;  Arthur  F.  Graves, 
leader;  George  Kelly,  drum  major. 

W.  L.  Baker  Post  No.  86,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Northampton,  75  men,  John 
P.  Thompson,  commander;  Calvin  B.  Kingsley,  junior  vice-com- 
mander. 

Spanish  War  Veterans  of  Northampton,  40  men;  James  R.  GilfiUan, 
captain. 

Governor  John  L.  Bates,  in  a  carriage  drawn  by  four  horses;  in  the 
carriage  with  him,  Mayor  Henry  C.  Hallett,  Adjutant-General 
Samuel  Dalton;  outriders  in  continental  costumes,  Charles  H. 
Manson,  Robert   B.  Weir,  Robert  H.  Clapp,  Frank  L.  Clapp. 

Carriage,  with  Governor's  staff,  General  Otis  H.  Marion,  Colonel  Edward 
J.  Gihon,  Colonel  John  Perrins,  Colonel  Jenness  K.  Dexter. 

Carriage,  with  Judge  Loranus  E.  Hitchcock  of  Chicopee,  District-Attor- 
ney Dana  Malone  of  Greenfield,  Sherifi^  Embury  P.  Clark  of 
Hampden  county,  Sheriff  Isaac  Chenery  of  Franklin  county. 

Carriage,  with  Superintendent  Jacob  H.  Carfrey  of  the  Northampton 
public  schools.  Judge  William  G.  Bass.ett,  Principal  Joseph  H. 
Sawyer  of  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton. 

Carriage,  with  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  T.  Rose,  Principal  Clarence  B.  Roote  of 
the  Northampton  high  school.  County  Treasurer  Edwin  H.  Banister. 

Carriage,  with  George  Sheldon  of  Deerfield,  historian  and  antiquarian, 
and  Frederick  N.  Kneeland  of  Northampton. 

Carriage,  with  Chief  Thomas  C.  Gleason  of  the  fire  department  of  the 
town  of  Ware,  Chief  George  H.  Byers  of  the  fire  department  of 
the  town  of  Westfield,  Chief  John  E.  Pomphret  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment of  the  citv  of  Chicopee. 

Carriage,  with  Mayor  Arthur  B.  Chapin  of  Holyoke,  Aldermen  John  J. 
Kennedy  and  Moses  Bassett  of  Northampton,  Selectman  George.  D. 
Storrs  of  Ware. 

Carriage,  with  Alderman  Edward  J.  Jarvis  of  Northampton,  Town 
Clerk  Francis  A.  Loud  of  Westhampton,  Selectman  Lawrence 
Malloy  of  Williamsburg,  Selectman  Matthew  J.  Ryan  of  Hatfield. 


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Carriage,  with  Alderman  Dennis  J.  Meehan  of  Northampton,  Select- 
man A.  Drury  Rice  of  Westhampton,  Lucius  E.  Parsons  of  the 
Eastham|)ton  special  committee,  Selectman  Francis  S.  Reynolds 
of  Hadley. 

Carriage,  with  Representative  Harry  E.  Graves  of  Hatfield,  Watson  H. 
Wright  of  the  Easthampton  special  committee.  Selectman  Nelson 
Randall  of  Belchertown,  Councilman  Alexander  W.  Ewing  of 
Northampton. 

Carriage,  with  Selectman  Albert  I.  G.  Quigley  of  Southampton,  John  N. 
Lyman  of  the  Easthampton  special  committee.  Selectman  Samuel 
B.  Dickinson  of  Granby,  Councilman  Clarence  E.  Hodgkins. 

Carriage,  with  Selectman  Martin  Norris,  Town  Clerk  Frederick  E.  Judd, 
Moderator  Homer  O.  Strong,  of  Southampton,  and  Councilman 
Arthur  C.  Herrick. 

Carriage,  with  Councilmen  Alfred  J.  Preece,  Roderick  M.  Starkweather, 
Michael  W.  Meehan  and  Abbot  L.  Gloyd. 

Carriage,  with  Councilmen  S.  William  Clark,  Edgar  J.  Hebert,  Charles 
S.  Beals,  George  H.  Drviry. 

Carriage,  with  Councilmen  Homer  O.  Adams,  James  H.  O'Dea  and 
Stephen  M.  Keough. 

Carriage,  with  Alderman  Lewis  F.  Babbitt,  Common  Council  Clerk  Wil- 
liam E.  Shannon  and  Councilman  Harry  A.  Stowell. 

Carriage,  with  George  W.  Harlow,  Luther  C.  Wright,  Selectman  John 
E.  Lyman  of  South  Hadley  and  Selectman  Edwin  B.  Clapp  of 
Westhampton. 

Carriage,  with  James  W.  HefTernan,  Edward  E.  Wood,  Councilman 
Thomas  J.  Burke  of  Springfield,  and  Robert  W.  Lyman,  Register 
of  Deeds. 

Carriage,  with  City  Clerk  Egbert  L  Clapp,  City  Marshal  George  M. 
Stebbins  of  Springfield,  and  Sidney  B.  Curtis  of  Hartford,  Conn. 

Carriage,  with  Selectmen  Jairus  F.  Burt  and  John  Cullen  and  Town 
Clerk  and  Town  Treasurer  Joseph  W.  Wilson  of  Easthampton. 

Carriage,  with  Councilman  William  H.  Carson,  Tax  Collector  Thomas  F. 
McCabe  of  Holyoke,  City  Messenger  William  J.  Walsh  of  Holyoke, 
Alderman  J.  Henry  Sullivan  of  Holyoke. 

Carriage,  in  which  were  seated  Drusilla  Hall  Johnson,  the  oldest  lady  in 
Northampton;  her  daughter.  Miss  Sarah  M.  H.  Johnson,  John  C. 
Hammond  of  Northampton  and  Miss  Marv  Johnson  of  Spring- 
field. 

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Carriage 


Sixteen  private  vehicles,  decorated  with  |)apcr  flowers,  in  the  fol- 
lowing order: 

Dr.  Arthur  G.  Doane, 
top  carriage,  deco- 
rated with  yellow 
chrysanthemums, 
occupied  by  Dr. 
Doane  and  Mrs. 
Doane. 

Miss  Harriet  E.  Fow- 
ler's dog  cart,  trim- 
med with  red  and 
white  poppies,  oc- 
cupied by  Miss 
Fowler  and  Miss 
Grace  L.  Fav. 

Henry  B.  Haven's 

two-seated    surrey, 

trimmed  with  yel- 

lo w    and    white 

chrysanthemums,  occupied  by  Mr.  and    Mrs.   Henry  B.   Haven,  Jr., 

and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  A.  Haven  of  Florence. 
Colonel   Henry   L.   WiUiams'  two-seated   brake,    drawn  by   two   black 

horses;    decorations,    white    roses    with    green    leaves;    occupied    by 

Mrs.  Williams,  Miss 
Lucy  E.  Dewey  of 
Boston  and  Mas- 
ters Charles  E.  and 
Frank  Howard  Joy 
of  Northampton. 

Charles  N.  Fitts' 
pony  cart,  trim- 
med with  roses  and 
laurel,  occupied  by 
Donald  C.  and  G. 
Norman  Fitts. 

William  A.  Bailey's 
pneumatic-tired 
runabout,  trimmed 
with  yellow  and 
white  roses,  occu- 
pied by  Miss  Grace 
M.  Bailey  and  Mrs. 
Charles  L.  Sauter. 


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Robert  M.  Witherell  of  Florence,  pneumatic-tired  runabout,  trimmed 
with  vellow  and  white  chrysanthemtmis,  occupied  bv  Mr.  Witherell 
and  Miss  Mary  A.  Benway. 

Charles  W.  Kinney,  top  carriage,  trimmed  with  pink  poppies,  with  black 

centers,    occupied    by    Mrs.    Charles    W.    Kinney    and    C.    Milton 

Kinney. 
Mrs.  Charles  N.  Harlow,  top  carriage,  trimmed  with  yellow  poppies  of 

four  shades,  occupied  bv  Mrs.  Harlow  and  Robert  C.  Kinney  of 

Milford. 

Myron  C.  Bailey,  two-seated  surrey,  drawn  by  two  buckskin  horses, 
decorated  with  green  poppies,  occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bailey, 
George  E.  Smith  and  Miss  Flora  Smith  of  Ware. 

Robert  M.  Edwards,  trap,  drawn  by  two  black  horses,  trimmings  of 
yellow  chrysanthemums,  occupied  by  Mr.  Edwards  and  James 
H.  Searle. 

J.  Howe  Demond,  two-seated  open  surrey,  drawn  by  a  pair  of  chestnut 
Morgan  mares.  The  cairiage  and  harness  were  entirely  covered 
with  red  cloth,  and  o:namented  with  Jacqueminot  roses;  occupied 
by  Mrs.  Samuel  Knapp  Towle  of  Haverhill,  with  Mr.  Demond, 
Mrs.  Harvey  T.  Shores  and  Paul  Demond  Shores. 

Sheriff  Jairus  E.  Clark's  two-seated  open  surrey,  decorated  with  white 
chrysanthemums,  occupied  by  Miss  Charlotte  Parks  of  Westfield, 
Miss  Mabel  Stevens  of  Dorchester,  and  Miss  Gertrude  Clark,  with 
D.  Eugene  Dickinson  as  driver. 

Vernet  E.  Cleveland,  top  carriage,  trimmed  with  white  chrysanthe- 
mums, occupied  by  Mr.  Cleveland  and  Dr.  James  B.  Stetson  of 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

Dr.  Sidney  A.  Clark,  runabout,  triinmed  with  pink  chrysanthemums  of 
manv     shades,     occupied    bv    Dr. 
Clark,  Miss  Milhcent  Clark  and  Miss 
Marion  Bartlett  of  New  York. 

Alexander  McCallum,  top  carriage, 
drawn  by  two  bay  horses,  trimmed 
with  wistaria  and  other  decorations 
of  lavender  and  white,  occupied 
by  Mr.  McCallum  and  Mrs.  George 
B.  McCallum. 

Dr.  George  H.  Demming  of  Westfield, 
open  carriage,  drawn  by  span  of 
black  horses,  decorations  of  red, 
white  and  blue;  occupied  by  Mr. 
Demming  and  Misses  Rowena 
D.    and    Rhoda  B.    Warner    of 


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Governor  John  L.  Bates,  Mrs.  Bates  and  Adjutant-General  Dalton 


SeconD  division 

Marshal,  Capt.  Edward  P.  Hall. 

Headed  by  the  Bay  State  Drum  Corps;  drum  major,  Francis  Parent; 
Leaders,  Arthur  Gilbert  and  Harry  Bingley. 

Staff  of  Third  Regiment,  Patriarchs  Militant,  Col.  William  H.  Bruce, 
Lieut.  Frederick  P.  Mansur  and  twelve  men. 

Canton  Meadow  City,  David  Maxwell  commander,  35  men. 

Canton  Chapin,  thirty  men. 

Canton  Springfield,  twenty  men. 

Nonotuck  Lodge,  100  men;  Thomas  H.  Bolter,  marshal. 

L'Union  St.  Joseph  float. 

St.  Jean  Baptiste  Society  float. 

Sacred  Heart  float. 

Knights   of   Sherwood   Forest,  Capt.  George    L.   La  Fleur;  thirty-three 
men;  Commander,  Eugene  B.  Tatro. 

Primrose  Lodge,  Sons  of  St.  George  float. 


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The  A.  O.  H.  Drum  Corps  of  Chicopee 

Falls,  Daniel  J.  Moriart_v  leader; 

drum  major,  Eugene  Miller; 

twelve  men. 

Division    No.    i,    Ancient    Order    of 

Hibernians,  John  T.  Dewey,  leader; 

William  Godfrey,  marshal; 

eighty  men. 

Florence  Commandery,  Golden  Star 
float. 


Mrs.     Drusilla     Hall     Johnson 
Oldest  Woman  in  Town,  loo  Vears 

Meadow  City  Coiirt  No.  72,  F.  of  A. 
float. 

Pride  of  Meadow  City  (C.  of  F.) 
lodge  float. 

Shelburne  Falls  Military  Band,  Will- 
iam Stemple,  leader;  drum  major, 
William  Woods;  twenty-one  men. 

Northampton  Grange,  P.  of  H.,  No. 

I  ^8,  float. 


Austin     Packard 
Oldest    Man    in   Town,    94  Years 


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Hampshire  Lodge  of  A.  0. 

United  Workmen,  in  charge  of 

Luther  E.  Tyler. 

High  Ridge  Lodge  of  Wilhams- 
burg,    Crescent    Lodge    of  Am- 
herst, College  City  Lodge; 
seventy-five  men. 

Red  Men's  Council,  Capawonke, 
float  and  eighteen  men  on 
horses,  ridden  by  Red  Men;  in 
charge  of  Sachem  Jeremiah 
Maloney. 

Float  of  the  Home  Culture 
Clubs. 

St.  Anne's  Society  (Florence) 
float.' 

Knights  of  Columbus  float. 

Father  Mathew  Temperance  So- 
ciety of  Northampton  float,  dec- 
orated in  blue  and  white,  with 
evergreen  trimmings,  and  drawn 
bv  four  horses. 


ttbirD  SXvision— JEastbampton 

Marshal,  Edward  L.  Shaw;  aids, 
Charles  D.  Utley,  John  L.  Ly- 
man, Henry  M.  Taylor. 

Easthampton  Band,  Arthur  Mc- 
Donald, leader;  twenty  pieces. 

Mounted  platoon:    George  L.  McEvov,  James  McGrath,  Stanislaus  Fu- 
gere,  Frank  L.  Clapp,  George  B.  Cook,  George  Freiday. 

Town  float. 

Hampton  Mills  float. 

Plumber  James   P.    Ryan,   in   open   barouche,    distributing  advertising 

souvenirs. 


Matthew     Carroll 
A  Typical  Irish  Gentleman,  Out  for  the  Celebration 


Soutbampton 

Charles  S.  Foley,  Town  Marshal. 
Southampton  Drum  Corps,  eleven  pieces,  Albert  E.  Bosworth,  leader. 


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Float  representing  settlers  going  from  Northampton  to  Southampton 

in  1723. 

Float  representing  old  stagecoach. 

Float  representing  "Southampton  Independent  Street  Railway  Line." 

THacstbampton 
Town  float,  representing  butter-making. 
Another  float  representing  old-time  sawmill. 


JFourtb  Division 

Marshal,  John  J.  Raleigh;  Aids,  George  S.  Whitbeck,  Philip  Gleason, 
James  F.  Martin,  James  A.  Pollard,  Charles  W.  Walker,  Charles 
L.  Gallup,  Victor  Rocheleau. 

Short's  United  States  Armory  Band  of  Springfield,  Thomas  V.  Short, 
leader;  twenty-two  men. 

William  C.  Pomeroy,  mounted,  representing  Gen.  Seth  Pomeroy,  en 
route  from  Northampton  to  participate  in  the  Battle  of  Bunker 
Hill. 

Three  outriders,  C.  Preston  Otis,  Wilfred  H.  and  Raymond  H.  Learned. 

Colonial  Drum  Corps,  Patrick  J.  McConville,  fifer,  James  Heffernan  and 
William  E.  Dumphey,  drummers. 


Ibistorical  3Float9 

The  First  School  in  Northampton. 
The  Northampton  High  School  of  Today. 
Perils  of  Our  Forefathers, 
minutemen  of  northampton  in   1774- 
A  Colonial  Court  Trial. 


ffiftb  ©ivision 

Frederick    E.    Chase    of    Northampton,    chief   of   the    fire    department, 
Marshal. 


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The  Northampton  Fire  Department,  officered  and  manned  as  follows: 

Felix  X.  Laframboise,  Assistant  Engineer;  Charles  O.  Parsons,  Clerk 
and  Assistant  Engineer;  Charles  S.  Pratt,  Jr.,  superintendent  fire 
alarm  telegraph. 

Chemical  A  Co.  —  Captain,  Joseph  T.  Lucier;  Lieutenant,  Charles  Vet- 
terling;  Clerk,  Henry  E.  Partridge;  ten  men. 

Hose  Co.,  No.  i — Captain,  Thomas  W.  Hurley;  Lieutenant,  Thomas 
P.  Waldron;  Clerk,  John  T.  Londergan;  nine  men. 

Hose  Co.,  No.  2  —  Captain,  Philip  H.  Sheridan;  Lieutenant,  John  Shea; 

Clerk,  William  Scully;  ten  men. 
Hose  Co.,  No.  3  —  Captain,  John  C.  Black;  Lieutenant,  John  W.  Waltz; 

Clerk,  Arthur  E.  Graves;  ten  men. 
Hose  Co.,  No.  4  —  Captain,  Leroy  F.  Robbins;  Lieutenant,  Harry  Huff; 

Clerk,  Edward  J.  Ryan;  fourteen  men. 
Hook  and   Ladder  Co.,  No.  2  —  Captain,  Edwin  C.  Addis;  Lieutenant, 

Charles  E.  Andrus;  Clerk,  Charles  S.  Clark;  eight  men. 
Hook  and  Ladder  Co.,  No.  3  —  Captain,  John  W.   Ennis;  Lieutenant, 

Timothy  D.  Sheehan;  Clerk,  Ralph  M.  Fowler;  twelve  men. 
Steamer,  No.   i  —  Engineer,   Dwight  S.   Huxley;   Fireman,   William  H. 

Hall;  two  men. 
Steamer,  No.  2  —  Engineer,  James  Lawlor;  Fireman,  Richard  E.  Dav- 

ies;  two  men. 


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Slitb  Division 

Frederick  G.  Jager  of  Northampton,  marshal. 
The  Twelfth  Regiment  Band  of  Westfield. 
Decorated  Automobiles  as  follows: 

The  Springfield  Auto- 
mobile Company  had 
the  first  car  in  line, 
entered  by  Frederick 
G.  Jager,  marshal  of 
this  division.  This 
was  a  24-horse  power 
car,  of  the  locomo- 
bile touring  type, 
and  was  trimmed 
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anthemums.  It 
was  occupied  by 
Mrs.  Frederick  G. 
Jager  and  Mrs.  Tillie 
C.  Bosworth  of 
Northampton  and 
Henry  Allen  of 
Greenfield.  Frederick 
G.  Jager,  chauffeur. 


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Hugh  McLeod  of  Hat- 
field came  next,  with 
another  24-horse 
power  locomobile  of 
four  cylinders.  The 
car  was  trimmed 
w4th  lilies  and  bunt- 
ing, and  was  occu- 
pied by  Mr.  McLeod 
and  family  and  Jon- 
athan E.  Porter  and 
family.  Hugh  Mc- 
Leod, chauffeur. 

A  four -horse  power, 
four-cylinder  loco- 
mobile from  Am- 
herst, trimmed  with 
yellow  poppies,  was 
occupied  by  gentle- 
men from  that  town, 
and  D wight  M.  Bih- 
ings  of  Amherst 
acted  as  chauffeur. 


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Eugene  E.  Davis  appeared  with  a  Packard  touring  car,  conveying  a 
dainty  load  of  young  misses.  The  car  was  trimmed  with  white 
poppies  and  the  girls  were  dressed  in  white  and  wore  black  poppy 
hats.  They  were  Misses  Elizabeth  Pearson,  Catherine  Clark, 
Dorothy  S.  Davis,  Arlene  C.  King,  Helen  Ross,  Helene  C.  Kings- 
ley  and  Esther  H.  Mather.     Mr.  Davis  officiated  as  chauffeur. 

Charles  W.  Johnson  was  chauffeur  of  a  Holyoke  touring  car,  which 
came  next. 

A  locomobile  surrey,  trimmed  with  pink  and  white  chrysanthemums, 
was  occupied  by  four  boys  dressed  in  dainty  white  costumes;  thev 
were  Henry  E.  Wood,  John  L.  Nichols,  Harold  B.  Winchell  and 
Joseph  O.  Daniels,  Jr.     Edward  E.  Wood,  Jr.,  was  chauffeur. 

In  a  Stevens-Duryea  car,  decorated  and  nearly  covered  with  red  pop- 
pies in  three  shades,  was  Edgar  F.  Crooks  accompanied  by  three 
children  dressed  in  dazzling  white  costume.  They  were  Miss  El- 
eanor P.  Spencer,  Master  Chester  C.  Marsh  and  Master  Laurence 
E.  Crooks. 

Lewis  E.  Warner  appeared  in  a  locomobile  surrey,  trimmed  with  bunt- 
ing and  flowers,  accompanied  by  Ralph  E.  Harlow,  Karl  W.  Brad- 
ley and  Misses  Ethel  P.  and  Carolyn  E.  Clapp. 

Thomas  Gerry's  locomobile  was  trimmed  with  yellow  poppies  and 
occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gerry. 

Arthur  L.  Kingsbury  guided  a  Stevens-Durvea  car  and  it  was  trimmed 
with  evergreens  and  roses.  Miss  M.  Elizabeth  Miller  accompanied 
Mr.  Kingsburv. 

A  car  of  the  Rambler  type  was  occupied  bv  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick 
W.  Bement.  It  was  decorated  with  white  chrysanthemums  on 
red  ground ;  the  body  of  the  machine  was  solid  white  and  the 
wheels  were  covered.     Mrs.  Bement  was  dressed  in  white. 

A  locomobile  surrey,  trimmed  with  white  and  pink  roses,  was  driven 
by  Forrest  G.  Kirsch,  and  was  also  occupied  by  Miss  Christine  L. 
Kirsch,  Miss  Florence  H.  Jager  and  Roy  S.  Armstrong  as  bugler. 

Dr.  William  H.  Baxter  was  accompanied  by  his  family  in  a  Rambler, 
trimmed  with  flowers  and  bunting. 

A  Warwick  machine,  trimmed  with  white  poppies  and  bunting,  was 
occupied  by  Warren  T.  Risley. 

Willis  F.  Anderson  of  the  Springfield  Automobile  Co.  occupied  a  Ste- 
vens-Duryea machine,  trimmed  with  roses  and  carnations,  and 
was  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Anderson. 

The  Springfield  Automobile  Co.  was  also  represented  by  Charles  A. 
Longeway,  in  a  locomobile  surrey,  trimmed  with  yellow  chrys- 
anthemums, and  Mr.  Longew^ay  was  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Longe- 
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Adam  J.   Englehart  was  in  line  with  an  automobile  of  his  own  con- 
struction, made  in  Northampton. 

Frederick  C.  Deuel  of  Springfield  conducted,  alone,  a  machine  trimmed 
with  roses  and  poppies. 

Arthur  H.  Rogers  of  Springfield  was  unaccompanied. 

Willis  A.   Ford  of  Springfield  had  a  machine  trimmed  with  roses  and 

poppies. 
Frank  H.  Metcalf  of  Holyoke,  unaccompanied. 


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THE        MAGNIFICENT        FLOATS 

The  most  spectacular  part  of  the  parade  was  the  float  feature, 
and  this  was  worked  out  by  the  Parade  Committee  in  magnificent 
form.  The  historical  floats  were  especiall\'  interesting,  as  faithfully 
representing  various  features  of  colonial  life;  and  there  were  four  of 
these  arranged  by  the  committee. 

€bc  One-  ^^^  feature  of  the  plans  of  the  committee  was  the  show- 

iU?os0  .^ba?  ing  of  the  locomotion  of  the  fathers  with  that  of  the 
present  generation,  first  with  oxen,  then  the  most  prim- 
itive and  most  modern  of  horse  vehicles  and  finally  automobiles.  This 
was  worked  out  in  the  general  exhibit  and  the  committee  floats.  And 
here  the  old  "one-hoss  shay"  came  in.  One  was  obtained  from  Ver- 
mont, over  150  years  old,  and  a  lean,  gaunt  animal  was  found  to  draw 
it.  It  was  not  a  particularly  inviting  rig,  and  naturally,  the  com- 
mittee found  some  difficulty  in  persuading  any  one  to  ride  in  it.  Most 
people  preferred  to  appear  at  such  a  time  in  a  more  attractive-looking 
conveyance,  but  a  public-spirited  couple  were  finally  found  in  George 
E.  Whitbeck  of  Westfield  and  Miss  Dora  E.  Duplissis  of  Northampton, 
who  graced  the  old-fashioned  ramshackle  vehicle  in  a  striking  manner, 
and  provoked  much  mirth  and  admiration  by  the  nonchalant  and  to- 
the-manor-born  air  with  which  they  carried  themselves.  This  was  one 
of  the  most  popular  features  of  the  parade. 

The   second   float    represented  the    Minute-men    of    North- 
^j.„  ampton,  who  first   sprang  to  arms  m  the  American  Revo- 

lution. The  float  was  drawn  by  four  horses,  decorated 
with  plumes  and  streamers.  On  top  of  this  float  were  the  words, 
"Minute  Men  of  Northampton,  April  24,  1775,"  and  on  the  sides, 
"1776  —  The  Parliament  of  Great  Britain  has  no  right  to  legislate  for 
us." — Major  Hawley.      "He  has  gone  farther  than  I  have  yet  done." 

—  General  Otis.  In  another  place  were  the  words,  "After  all,  we 
must  fight." — Major  Hawley.      "By  God,  I  am  of  that  man's  mind." 

—  Patrick  Henry.  This  fioat  calls  to  mind  a  stirring  scene  in  history, 
in  which  that  patriotic  son  of  Northampton  figured.  Major  Hawley 
was  elected  a  delegate  to  a  convention  of  the  colonies  called  to  con- 
sider relations  with  the  mother  countrv.  He  was  ill  and  could  not  go, 
but  he  sent  a  letter  expressing  his  sentiments,  and  that  letter  was  read 
in  the  presence  of  Patrick  Henry.  And  when  Patrick  Henry  heard 
Hawley 's  words,  "We  must  fight,"  he  swore  that  solemn  oath  already 


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quoted.  Joseph  Hawley's  words  were  undoubtedly  in  the  mind  and 
heart  of  Patrick  Henry  a  few  days  later,  when  he  stood  in  a  little  church 
in  Virginia  and  defied  the  power  of  England,  exclaiming,  "Give  me 
liberty  or  give  me  death  !  " 

This  float  was  easily  the  most  important  and  inspiring  feature  of 
the  whole  aggregation,  and  its  inception  was  a  happy  thought  on  the 
part  of  the  chairman  of  the  parade  committee,  .Capt.  Irwin.  The 
personators  of  the  minute-men  were  Clarence  A.  Whitbeck,  Charles  F. 
Manning,  Clarence  S.  Curtis,  William  Prue,  John  A.  Soule. 

The    next    float    illustrated    in    a    striking    way    the 
ff^Ju^  perils  of  the  forefathers,  in  settling  upon  this  land. 

J^orcfatftccs  The  scene  pictured  early  settlers  located  in   a  field, 

with  a  child.  Their  guns  were  close  at  hand,  and 
they  were  prepared  for  the  surprises  of  conflict,  in  this  case  shown  to 
be  close  at  hand,  from  the  presence  of  Indians  watching  them  from 
ambush.  The  personations  were  by  William  Anderson,  Henry  Brad- 
ley, Fred  D.  Gary,  George  F.  Warren,  Patrick  A.  Powers,  Harold  R. 
Rogers  and  Miss  Sadie  J.  Ayers. 

The  first  school-house  was  of  the  log-cabin  type,  with 
%  h    i-t^    E  ^  realistic  background  of  trees,  rocks,  etc.     The  oc- 

cupants personated  Puritans,  in  the  traditional  cos- 
tume. The  master  of  the  school  was  John  Hancock  Babbitt  and  the 
pupils  Misses  Florence  A.  Babbitt,  Claire  A.  Babbitt,  Agnes  G.  Clancy, 
and  Margaret  A.  Buckhout.  There  was  also,  on  this  float,  a  Puritan 
quartet  composed  of  Frederick  W.  Macomber,  M.  Dewey  Maynard,  Roy 
W.  Steele,  of  Northampton,  and  Leroy  F.  Purrington  of  Haydenville. 
They  sang,  as  the  float  moved  along,  songs  of  the  olden  time,  such  as 
"Massa's  in  the  Cold,  Cold  Ground,"  "Auld  Lang  Syne,"  "Old  Ken- 
tucky Home,"  etc.  This  float  was  drawn  by  four  horses  and  they  were 
decorated  with  plumes,  streamers  and  banners. 

The  high-school  float  was  trimmed  with  laurel  and 
c^^'coba'p   °  ^^^  ^^*^  white  poppies.     At  each  corner  of  the  float 

were  large  tassels  of  red  and  white.  By  using  these 
colors,  red,  white  and  green,  one  color  at  least  of  each  of  the  classes 
was  used.  The  girls  on  the  float  were  supposed  to  be  in  a  recitation 
room.  The  four  classes  of  the  school  were  represented  as  follows: 
Junior  Class,  Harriet  E.  Gilbert,  Molly  R.  Felton,  Eva  B.  Adams, 
Estella  Damon,  Clara  L.  Haves;  Senior  Class,  Helen  L.  Flavin,  Emilv 


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L.  Parsons,  Mary  E.  Glcason,  Grace  M.  Larkin;  Sophomore  Class,  Bertha 
K.  Seidell,  Everill  Valentine.  Marion  J.  Hobson,  Blanche  B.  Tomlin; 
Freshman  Class,  Ethel  B.  Chilson,  Hazel  E.  Crafts,  Alice  Towhill, 
Rhea  S.  Delano. 

The  lawyers  of  Northampton  united  in  making  up  a 
iroiirt""'^  representation   of   a   court   of  justice   in   the   colonial 

period,  which  was  quite  effective.  The  float  pictured 
a  court  scene,  in  which  the  following  persons  participated;  Justice, 
Miss  Eva  J.  Rivers;  Judge,  David  H.  Keedy;  lawyers  and  court  officers, 
seven  Amherst  students.  The  judge  wore  a  red  gown  and  wig,  and 
the  lawyers  and  court  officers  were  attired  in  the  costumes  of  the  period. 
The  float  was  drawn  by  two  horses,  decorated  with  white  flowers  and 
rosettes,  and  led  by  men  in  red  livery. 


Bastbampton 

The  Easthampton  Celebration  Committee  evolved  a 
^rounicD  comprehensive    and    elegant    float    in    their    allegorical 

representation  of  "Industry  Crowned."  The  object 
was  to  make  a  good  showing  of  the  manufacturing  industries  of  the 
town,  which  are  the  life  and  mainstay  of  the  place.  It  was  an  artistic 
success,  and  reflected  great  credit  upon  the  management,  whose  names 
have  been  elsewhere  given.  The  float  was  eight  by  twenty  feet,  draped 
in  white  and  vellow  and  festooned  with  ropes  of  evergreen.  On  the 
drapery  of  the  first  platform,  along  the  sides,  were  the  dates  "1785  and 
1904,"  and  between  them,  "Easthampton,  your  Youngest  Daugh- 
ter." At  the  rear  end  was  the  name  "Pascommuck,"  the  early  Indian 
name  of  the  settlement  which  is  now  Easthampton.  There  were 
twentv-two  characters  on  the  float.  Miss  Ethel  L.  Friel  was  costumed 
as  a  queen,  in  a  royal  robe  of  white  satin,  gold-embroidered,  with  a 
heavy  ermine  bordered  cape  of  dark  green  brocade  with  spangles. 
She  wore  a  gilt  crown,  with  jewels,  and  made  a  handsome  picture, 
seated  at  the  top  of  a  high  pyramid,  draped  in  white  and  yellow.  Sweep- 
ing steps  led  down  from  each  side  of  the  throne,  and  in  front  of  the 
queen  sat  Miss  Anna  Depledge,  personifying  the  Church,  and  gowned 
in  a  white  surplice  over  black.  She  carried  a  book  inscribed  "The 
Church,"  and  by  her  side,  in  the  traditional  university  cap  and  gown, 
sat  Miss  Anna  L.  Kilmurray,  representing  "The  School,"  and  holding  a 


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book  so  inscribed.  On  one  side  of  the  queen's  throne  stood  the  per- 
sonification of  Agriculture,  represented  by  Sumner  W.  Cobb,  with  one 
hand  resting  on  a  plow  and  the  other  on  the  throne.  On  the  other  side 
of  the  throne  stood  Earl  V.  Guy,  taking  the  part  of  a  mechanic,  with 
one  hand  resting  on  a  pile  of  suspender  web  from  the  mill  of  the  Nasha- 
wannuck  Manufacturing  Company,  and  the  other  on  the  queen's  throne. 
At  each  corner  stood  a  soldier.  Miles  Standish  was  represented  by 
Edwin  B.  Munn,  the  Continental  soldier  by  Homer  T.  Clark,  the  civil 
war  veteran  by  Wright  A.  Root,  and  the  Spanish  war  soldier  by 
Paul  B.  Johnson.  At  the  back  stood  a  brilliant  and  picturesque  group. 
Frank  W.  Morrill  personated  an  Indian  chief  and  Flora  B.  Collins  posed 
as  his  daughter.  To  complete  the  tout  ensemble  of  the  float  a  gay 
and  laughing  group  of  ten  beautiful  children  occupied  the  stairway 
leading  to  the  back  of  the  throne.  These  were  Annie  M.  Lord,  Ada  E. 
Smith,  May  E.  Menton,  Edith  E.  Wood,  Ella  V.  Friel,  Bertha  D.  Sten- 
der,  May  O.  Barnett,  May  P.  Voigt,  Annie  W.  and  Elizabeth  R.  Rie- 
del.  They  were  dressed  in  white,  and  those  who  had  dark  hair  tied  it 
with  red  ribbon  and  those  with  light  hair  wore  blue  ribbon.  They  also 
wore  floral  crowns,  in  colors  to  match  the  hair  ribbon,  red  rosebuds, 
and  forget-me-nots. 

This  charming  float  was  drawn  by  eight  horses,  each  led  by  a 
groom  in  cavalier  costume :  Nelson  Thompson,  John  Bousquet,  Edward  J. 
Nagel,  Joseph  La  Mountain,  William  H.  Thompson,  Wilham  Chipman, 
Joseph  H.  Graveline,  Joseph  Graveline,  Jr.  The  horses  wore  blankets 
with  the  names  of  Easthampton  manufacturers  on  them,  as  follows: 
Nashawannuck  Manufacturing  Company,  Glendale  Elastic  Fabrics 
Company,  National  Button  Company,  Easthampton  Rubber  Thread 
Company,  George  S.  Colton,  Hampton  Company,  W^est  Boylston  Com- 
pany, Dibble  &  Warner.  The  float  was  designed  by  George  L.  Munn 
and  others,  arranged  by  Odell  G.  Webster,  and  driven  bv  Frank  C. 
Haynes. 

On    this    float    the    word    "Easthampton"    was    worked 
M\il9   '  °^  both  sides  of  the  foundation  and  "Hampton  Com- 

pany" on  the  back,  with  skeins  of  yarn  in  gold  letters 
on  a  blue  ground.  Jack  spools  formed  the  next  tier,  then  a  row  of 
cones,  followed  by  two  rows  of  spools,  surmounted  by  a  ladv's  bower. 
The  float  was  drawn  by  five  horses,  decorated  with  plumes  and  colored 
trappings,    and   was   designed   to   show   the   different   branches   of   the 


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converting  business  of  the  Hampton  Company.  The  materials  used 
in  decorating  the  float  were  made  of  spools  of  white  and  colored  mer- 
cerized yarns,  placed  endwise,  one  above  another.  The  jack  spools, 
cones  and  spools  were  all  filled  in  with  bright  complementary  colors, 
the  intersections  being  filled  in  with  carefully  twisted  yarns  to  imitate 
flowers.  The  occupants  of  the  bower  were:  Misses  Emily  Bromley, 
Bessie  Handle}',  Alice  A.  McDermott,  Mary  L.  Greenough,  dressed  in  white 
and  wearing  crowns  made  of  colored  yarns  to  imitate  flowers.  The 
driver  was  David  J.  R.ayno,  and  the  leaders  were:  Fred  Brouer,  George  J. 
Bruett,  George  McAdoo,  Peter  Duprey,  dressed  in  white  suits,  with 
white  caps  and  nicely  finished.  The  above  float  was  designed  by 
James  McCallum,  overseer  of  the  finishing  department. 

Plumber  James  P.  Ryan  of  Easthampton  followed  the  town  floats 
with  an  open  barouche,  suitably  inscribed,  advertising  his  business, 
and  the  occupants  distributed  very  pretty  fans  of  burnt  work  among 
the  crowd. 

Soutbampton 

The  town  of  Southampton  was  represented  by  three  floats,  which 
showed  much  ingenuity  in  design  and  make-up.  They  were  preceded 
by  Town  Marshal  Charles  S.  Foley  in  ancient  costume,  and  his  aid, 
Marcus  E.  Lyon,  and  following  them  came  the  Southampton  Drum  Corps 
of  eleven  pieces.  The  first  float  and  one  which  attracted  the  most 
attention  was  entitled 

In  front  of  an  old-fashioned  ox  team  marched  Syl- 
f'"'"?  ^°  vester  P.  Coleman  of  Southampton.     He  was  a  large, 

in  1723  heavy    man,    and    trudged  along  barefoot,  carrying 

a  long,  ancient  musket  on  his  shoulder.  There 
was  a  yoke  of  oxen,  attached  to  a  huge  two-wheeled  cart,  laden  with 
household  furniture  and  utensils  of  the  olden  time,  old-fashioned  chairs, 
spinning  wheels,  cradle,  etc.,  and  the  characters  with  Mr.  Coleman 
were  pictured  as  going  from  Northampton  to  Southampton,  to  settle 
in  a  new  home.  The  other  parties  were  a  brother  and  two  sons  of  Mr. 
Coleman,  Dwight  G.  Coleman,  Sumner  S.  Coleman  and  Joseph  E.  Cole- 
man, the  two  former  marching  beside  the  team,  with  muskets,  and  the 
latter  representing  the  woman  of  the  family,  seated  in  one  of  the  old 
chairs.  This  float  was  considered  by  the  most  competent  judges  to 
be   the   most   appropriate  and  striking  of  the  floats,  and  undoubtedly 


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it  would  have  received  a  prize,  but  it  turned  off  the  main  line  of 
march  before  reaching  the  reviewing  stand,  and  was  not  therefore  seen 
by  the  judges. 

Next    of    Southampton's    stirring     contributions     to 

«^!b-fa0hioncb  ^^le  parade  was    an    old-fashioned    stagecoach,    pla- 

carded,  Northampton  to  bouthampton,  U.  b. 
Mail,  1809."  This  feature  was  the  result  of  an  interesting  correspond- 
ence which  Postmaster  and  Town  Clerk  Frederick  E.  Judd  had  with 
the  post-office  department  at  Washington.  He  wrote,  asking  for  the 
facts  concerning  the  record  of  this  route,  and  received  a  courteous 
reply,  accompanied  with  expression  of  wishes  that  it  might  be  of  help 
in  the  parade.  This  was  the  route:  No.  51  —  From  Hartford,  Conn., 
by  Suffield,  Westfield,  Southampton,  Hatfield,  Whately,  Deerfield, 
Greenfield,  Bernardston,  Hinsdale,  Brattleboro,  Putney,  Westminster, 
Walpole,  Charlestown,  Claremont,  Cornish,  Windsor,  Hartland  and 
Plainfield  to  Hanover;  service  to  be  two  times  a  week;  route  180 
miles  long,  connecting  twenty-two  post-offices  in  four  states.  The 
occupants  of  the  float  were  dressed  in  old-time  costumes  and  were 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  K.  Parsons,  Mrs.  Edward  B.  Lyman,  Orlando 
C.  Searle,  Mrs.  Sylvester  P.  Coleman  and  two  children,  Elmer  and 
AHce,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  B.  Lyman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Grid- 
ley,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Lyman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilham  S.  Lyon, 
George  A.  Gorton  and  George  D.  H annum,  with  Willard  P.  Sherman 
as  driver. 

In  the  next  of  Southampton's  floats  appeared  what 

;§iontf)ampton  was  deemed  by  many  the  cleverest  hit  of  the   day. 

ImS'^"^  This  was  labeled-  over  the   top,   "  Southampton   In- 

dependent Railroad  Co.  Cars  leave  every  min- 
ute." This  imitation  was  well  carried  out  in  every  detail,  and  the 
reaUstic  way  in  which  the  conductor  rang  up  the  fares  and  started 
and  stopped  the  car  by  the  regulation  bell  tap,  was  received  with  ap- 
plause all  along  the  route.  This  exhibition  prompted  the  Easthamp- 
ton  Neics  to  voice  the  hope  of  some  Southampton  people  that  it  would 
"soften  the  hearts  of  the  neighboring  street  railway  directors  and 
bring  the  veritable  broomstick  car  to  town."  The  occupants  of  the 
car  float  were  pupils  of  the  Southampton  Grammar  school — Marcus  E. 
Lyon,  Sumner  S.  Coleman,  Joseph  E.  Coleman,  Sadie  M.  Carrier,  EUz- 
abeth   M.    Duggan,    Helena   K.   Yenwiski,   Juha   E.    Norris,   Cecille   M. 


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Fowles,  Bernard  F.  Fowles,  Fred  W.  Sherman,  George  A.  Sherman, 
Reynolds  J.  Sherman,  FrankHn  H.  Sherman,  Bertha  K.  Parsons,  Edith 
S.  Lyman,  Mira  Poler,  Helen  K.  Norris,  Clare  S.  Woodbury,  Roy  J. 
Woodbury,  Ida  R.  Olds,  Mrs.  Allen  Smith,  Allen  H.  Smith,  Gertrude 
L.  Smith,  Helen  K.  Judd,  Edith  M.  Peck,  Flora  A.  Dalton,  NelHe  M. 
Dickinson,  Mrs.  Frank  R.  Bovd.    The  float  was  driven  bv  Allen  Smith. 

The  Southampton  line  was  closed  up  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.   Frank  R. 
Boyd,  who  drove  a  handsome  pair  of  bays. 


Mestbampton 

Westhampton    was    represented    by    two    floats, 
Gutter  jmaftino  and   one,   under   the   direction   of   Selectman   Ed- 

<(?l6cn  Cimcs  '^^^  ^-  Clapp,  showed  butter  making  in  the  old- 

en times.  The  decorations  were  of  yellow  and 
white.  The  float  was  handsomely  trimmed  and  was  drawn  by  four 
gaily-dressed  horses,  who  wore  white  coverings,  with  a  border  of  yellow 
buttercups.  On  the  outside  of  the  float  was  the  inscription,  "West- 
hampton Dairying,  1754."  In  the  float  was  an  old-fashioned  fireplace, 
with  warming  pans,  pots  and  kettles  and  old-fashioned  furniture. 
Clayton  A.  Bartlett  and  Miss  Grace  H.  Kingsley  represented  the  but- 
ter maker  and  his  wife,  Miss  Adah  M.  Judd  the  grandmother,  and 
Herbert  W.  and  George  E.  Clapp,  the  younger  members  of  the  family. 
They  were  busy  turning  the  old-fashioned  churn,  and  butter  making 
was  in  progress  during  the  ride.  Mahlon  K.  Parsons  was  the  driver, 
assisted  by  Ephraim  S.  Smith,  Lyman  K.  Bridgman  and  William 
Adams. 

The  second  of  the  Westhampton  floats  represented  the 
^•"^  '^^^  sawmill  and  lumber  interest  of  this  town,  in    primitive 

and  modern  style.  The  float  was  twenty-two  feet  long 
and  eight  feet  wide,  and  eleven  feet  six  inches  from  the  ground,  and 
was  drawn  by  four  horses.  Two  mills  were  in  operation,  getting  their 
power  by  means  of  belting  attached  to  the  wheels  of  the  wagon.  One 
mill  had  the  old-fashioned  up-and-down  saw  with  pit  and  hand  power 
in  operation,  and  the  other  the  modern  way  of  the  circular  saw  and 
carriage.  Lumber  was  being  made  during  the  progress  of  the  proces- 
sion, and  a  force  of  men  kept  busily  at  work.  This  float  was  under 
the  direction  of  Selectman  D wight  S.  Bridgman. 


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Next  to  the  town  and  historical  floats,  probably  the  display  made 
by  the  different  manufacturing  industries  of  the  city  were  the  most 
important  and  interesting.  They  were  constructed  at  a  great  expense 
and  contributed  largely  to  the  enthusiasm  of  the  day. 

The  Florence  silk  mill  exhibit  was  made  in  a  six-horse 
iRonotuck  coach  with  the   horses   decorated  in  white,   with   white 

j^lorcntc'  harnesses,   white   and  red   plumes,   blankets   white,   let- 

tered "Corticelli"  in  red,  white  fringe  with  a  border 
of  red  poppies.  The  coach  was  decorated  with  white  bunting,  with 
white  festoon  paper  for  background,  trimmed  with  red  poppies.  Large 
gold  eagle  in  a  panel  on  each  side;  large  red  silk  banner  with  word 
"Corticelli"  in  gold  leaf.  The  driver  and  guard  were  costumed  in  white 
with  brass  buttons  and  tall  white  hats.  There  was  a  coaching  horn, 
bearing  a  red  silk  banner,  lettered  "N.  S.  Co.,  1904."  The  occupants 
were  Irene, K.  Andrus,  Lizzie  M.  Burkett,  Mary  A.  Curran,  Nellie  G. 
Fitzgibbon,  Katherine  Fitzgerald,  Mabel  F.  Hall,  Mary  E.  Lovett, 
Jennie  A.  Noyes,  Nellie  G.  Whalen,  Katherine  G.  Ahearn,  Katherine 
L  Cantwell,  NelHe  A.  Doyle,  Margaret  E.  Fahey,  Ahce  V.  Hogan,  Mary 
A.  Hogan,  May  E.  Langdon,  Nellie  T.  O'Brien,  Margaret  G.  O'Brien, 
dressed  in  white,  with  white  hats  trimmed  with  red  poppies.  This 
float  was  designed  and  arranged  by  Sibley  H.  Keyes  and  Joseph  H. 
Shearn. 

The  Leeds  silk  mill  was  represented  by  a  Japanese  pa- 
l^onotuch  goda   and   tea   garden,    drawn   by   six   horses,   with   red 

•JlccW    '  blankets,   yellow  fringe   and   word   "Corticelli"   in   gold 

letters.  There  were  red  plumes  on  the  bridles,  and  the 
horses  were  led  by  six  men  in  Japanese  costume,  as  follows:  George  H. 
Tower,  Ubalde  J.  Chagnon,  Albert  Gendreau,  William  Mofflt,  Anthony 
Young  and  Clarence  A.  Lilly.  The  float  had  two  decks,  each  surrounded 
by  bronze  railing.  The  upper  one  was  surmounted  by  a  large  Jap- 
anese umbrella  and  occupied  by  Japanese  girls  engaged  in  needlework; 
there  were  also  tea  tables  with  two  Japanese  girls  serving  tea.  The 
lower  deck  was  occupied  by  four  Geisha  girls  and  girls  reeling  silk. 
The  general  effect  was  red  and  gold.  The  railing  of  the  upper  deck 
had  dragons  supporting  small  Japanese  lanterns.  The  occupants  were 
Mary  Sarah  Lafrenier,  Josephine  M.  Lafrenier,  Sophia  M.  Belemer, 
Alice  A.  Belemer,  Georgiana  A.  Maillioux,  Dora  F.  Carpenter,  Lucine 


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T.  Brisbois,  Eva  R.  Bedard,  Lizzie  V.  Hannigan,  Ora  E.  Chaquette, 
Alma  A.  Versaw,  Florence  D.  Versaw,  Delema  R.  Gougeon,  Jessie  E. 
Lee,  Sophronia  Young,  Laura  Moffit,  Lucy  Desmarais,  Rose  Desma- 
rais,  all  wearing  Japanese  kimonas.  The  float  was  designed  and 
arranged  by  Sibley  H.   Keyes  and  Joseph  H.  Shearn. 

The    Haydenville    silk    mill    gave    a    representation 
l^onotucft  of  Columbia.     The  float  was  drawn  by  six  horses, 

Wapticn\j*i»c  with  red,  white  and  blue  plumes  and  blue  blankets, 

with  white  fringe  and  stars,  each  horse  ridden  by 
a  man  in  artillery  uniform  and  carrying  a  United  States  flag.  The 
float  was  built  up  in  pyramidal  form  and  was  surmounted  by  the  God- 
dess of  Libert V.  Uncle  Sam  was  in  front,  with  two  infantrymen  and 
two  sailors  at  the  corners.  There  were  twenty-one  young  women, 
dressed  in  white  with  sashes  of  red,  white  and  blue,  thirteen  of  them 
holding  banners  representing  the  thirteen  original  states.  There  was 
a  large  blue  silk  flag  at  the  rear,  with  the  word  "Corticelli"  in  gold 
leaf.  The  general  eft'ect  was  red,  white  and  blue.  The  horses  were 
ridden  by  Frank  J.  Rowe,  William  Lawler,  Frank  T.  Crotty,  Wilfred 
J.  Lavalle,  Edward  G.  Richards,  and  Adlore  Lavalle.  The  occupants 
were  Mary  L.  Linnehan,  Goddess  of  Liberty;  Kate  H.  Linnehan,  Mar- 
garet A.  Linnehan.  Kate  R.  Coogan,  Margaret  Welch,  Margaret  Cadi- 
gan,  Ella  M.  Thompson,  Eva  Vigneau,  Florence  A.  Semineau,  Eva  V. 
St.  Lawrence,  Josie  M.  Shea,  Margaret  G.  Heffernan,  Emma  Danse- 
reau.  Rose  A.  Brown,  Kate  L.  O'Donnell,  Annie  V.  Welch,  Lizzie  K. 
Burke,  Mary  N.  Prince,  Annie  L.  Kearney,  Gertrude  F.  Bardwell, 
Stella  W.  Hill,  Louis  J.  Carpenter,  George  0.  Lavalle,  infantrymen; 
Henry  N.  Brown  and  Joseph  H.  O'Donnell,  sailors;  John  E.  Ahearn, 
Uncle  Sam.  This  float  was  also  designed  b3/  Sibley  H.  Keyes  and 
Joseph.  H.  Shearn. 

The  float  of  the  Belding  Bros.'  silk  mill  represented 
'?';'',^'!H^''°^*'  an  old  Viking  ship  with  its  crew,  and  several  weeks 

had  been  spent  on  its  preparation,  in  the  yard  of 
the  companv,  close  by  the  mill,  attracting  considerable  attention  from 
the  nearness  of  the  work  to  the  street.  Public  curiosity  in  the  neigh- 
borhood w^as  therefore  considerably  interested  and  no  one  was  disap- 
pointed when  the  completed  work  appeared.  The  decorations  of  the 
float  were  yellow,  white  and  gilt,  with  ropes,  oars  and  equipment.  The 
crew  were  costumed  in  white  and  vellow  and  th?  footmen  were  dressed 


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in  white.  The  occupants  were  Misses  OdeHa  A.  Belanger,  Marie  L. 
Charlebois,  Orphanie  M.  Gauthier,  Adala  Galon,  Ora  Parent,  Lea  M. 
Parent  and  Mabel  Young,  and  they  wore  dainty  costumes  of  white  and 
yellow.  The  float  was  designed  by  George  A.  Murray  of  Springfield, 
assisted  by  employes  of  the  company. 

This  float,  20  by  12  feet  and  drawn   by   six   horses, 

^""""fc  represented   a   magnified   Prophylactic   Tooth  Brush 

Companio  box.      i  his  beuig  the  tooth  brush  known  the  world 

over  as  the  one  "always  sold  in  a  yellow  box,"  the 

prevailing  colors  were  yellow,  red  and  black.      Five  men  were  dressed 

in  3-ellow  and  red,  and  there  were  two  footmen  in  colors.     There  were 

two  cornet  soloists,  and  on  the  rear  of  the  float  two  tooth  brushes  five 

feet  long. 

In  all  there  were  thirty  girls  and  seven  men  on  the  float,  dressed 
in  colors  to  harmonize  with  the  general  color  scheme  of  the  float.  They 
were  Misses  Mamie  T.  McBride,  Edna  H.  Van  Slett,. Clara  Manning, 
Lizzie  M.  Hogan,  Lizzie  G.  Connelly,  Mary  Finn,  Evelyn  M.  Beaupre, 
Hattie  B.  Cassin,  Emily  D.  Cassin,  Marie  Courchene,  Josephine  D. 
Evers,  Nellie  K.  Powers,  JuUa  M.  Smith,  Lizzie  G.  Latham,  Sadie  L. 
Askins,  Annie  M.  Tewhill,  Julia  Packard,  Jane  A.  Crean,  Harold  Cur- 
rier, WilHam  O.  Hubbard,  Louis  Beaupre,  Michael  Shea,  Annie  M. 
Halpin,  Monda  La  Mountaine,  Julia  L  Cashman,  Rose  Mooney,  Nellie 
Eagan,  Kittie  M.  O'Neil,  Esther  L.  Murphy,  Lizzie  G.  Murphy,  Kate 
F.  Shannon,  Nellie  Shannon,  Alice  Johnson,  Mamie  F.  Landy,  Howard 
F.  Baker,  Edward  J.  Gustafson  and  Charles  Heath. 

This  float,  designed  and  arranged  by  the  employes 
SsS'il  °^  *^^  McCallum  Hosiery  Company^  represented  a 

mode  of  wearing  silk  tights  several  centuries  ago, 
such  as  are  now  manufactured  by  the  exhibitor  for  stage  purposes, 
and  was  made  to  simulate  a  white  marble  Italian  terrace,  throned  upon 
which  was  a  princess  surrounded  by  her  court  of  knights  and  ladies, 
to  whom  a  Spanish  peddler  was  exhibiting  his  brilliant  silken  hose. 
The  ensemble  was  extremely  effective,  for  no  detail  was  omitted  to 
perfect  the  delusion.  The  apple  tree  in  full  bloom,  which  shaded  the 
princess  and  her  ladies,  the  golden  urns  filled  with  flowers,  festoons  of 
roses,  the  green  velvet  carpets,  all  aided  in  taking  one  back  in  fancy 
to  the  gorgeous  court  shows  of  the  sixteenth  century. 

All  the  properties,  from  the  white  and  gold  costumes  worn  by  the 


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two  little  pages,  who  carried  the  princess'  purple  and  ermine  mantle, 
the  scarlet  velvet  saddle  blankets  and  trappings,  which  covered  the 
dapple  gray  horses,  were  furnished  by  the  theatrical  costumers,  A. 
Koehler  &  Co.  of  New  York,  while  the  silk  tights  were  manufactured 
by  the  exhibitor.  The  horses  were  furnished  by  Thomas  J.  McGrath 
of  Northampton  and  were  driven  by  Edward  Breor  of  Hatfield. 

The  people  of  the  float,  employes  of  the  McCallum  Hosiery  Com- 
pany, were:  the  Princess,  Lilly  M.  Hill;  court  ladies.  Misses  Mildred  E. 
Drexel,  Margery  R.  Johnston,  Katherine  L.  O'Connor,  Ethel  F.  March; 
four  pages  leading  horses,  John  Hodge,  Earl  C.  Oefinger,  Fred  N.  Stev- 
enson, CUfford  March;  two  pages,  in  white  and  gold.  Master  Harold 
Alpin,  Master  Ernest  Tomhnson;  attendant  courtiers,  John  J.  Egan, 
Sidney  March,  WiUiam  H.  Drexel,  Ovilla  J.  Rivers,  James  H.  Burns, 
Napoleon  J.  Paquette,  Norris  March,  George  S.  Watson,  Charles  H. 
O'Donnell,  George  A.  Briggs;  peddler,  J.  Leonard  Meisner. 

"s      0      C      1      E      T      r  F      L      0      J      T      ~S 

No  one  class  or  section  of  Northampton  people  entered  into  the 
spirit  of  the  Celebration  with  more  enthusiasm  and  fervor  than  the 
French-American  societies.  Five  of  their  organizations  were  repre- 
sented in  the  line  of  march  and  four  of  them  constructed  for  the  occa- 
sion costly  and  handsome  floats.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  French  peo- 
ple understand  the  art  of  celebrating,  and  have  for  generations.  They 
have  made  the  subject  a  fine  art,  and  their  something  more  than  vol- 
atile—  jubilant  —  natures  respond  to  the  requirements  of  such  an 
occasion  with  ready  tact  and  great  generosity.  So  it  was  at  the  Quar- 
ter-Millennial Celebration.  From  the  very  inception  of  the  enterprise 
thev  were  alert  and  wide  awake  to  the  importance  of  the  undertaking, 
and  responded  promptly.  All  did  well,  but  the  French-American 
people  were  not  excelled.  Those  public-spirited  leaders  of  their  race, 
Victor  Rocheleau  and  Adolphe  Menard,  were  prominent  in  the  work  of 
preparation  and  these  were  members,  respectively,  of  the  Provisional 
Committee  of  fifteen  and  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committee. 

The  oldest  French  society  in  the  city  is  the  St.  Jean 
.§aint  f can  Baptiste  society,  and  it  turned  out  its  full  membership, 
Eocictp  ^^  regalia,  with  banner,  and  two  new  silk  flags,  ordered 

for  the  occasion.     It  produced  a  float  of  much  compre- 
hensiveness, having  several   significations.      It   was    constructed    on    a 


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Objects     ox     the     St.     Jean     B  a  p  t  i  s  t  e     Float 

platform  sixteen  feet  long  by  eight  feet  wide.  In  the  center  was  a 
beehive  made  of  straw,  representing  Industry.  About  this  hive  were 
six  persons,  and  on  top  of  the  hive  were  the  American  coat  of  arms 
and  the  star-spangled  banner,  with  the  French  flag.  At  the  right  of 
the  American  coat  of  arms  Miss  Lena  A.  Paquin  stood  in  a  costume 
spangled  with  stars.  She  wore  on  her  head  a  crown  of  laurel  leaves, 
surmounted  by  an  eagle,  representing  the  United  States.  At  the  left 
Miss  Delia  Menard  was  in  a  costume  of  white,  with  a  green  scarf  and 
crowned  with  maple  leaves,  surmounted  by  a  castor,  typifying  Canada. 
In  the  center  of  the  hive  stood  Miss  Marie  Antoinette  Laframboise, 
arrayed  in  white  and  leaning  on  a  cross,  representing  Charity.  Miss 
Anna  M.  Menard  wore  a  blue  costume  and  leaned  upon  a  heart-shaped 
shield,  representing  Fraternity.  Miss  Flora  Menard  wore  red  and  held 
scales  typifying  Justice;  and  young  Arthur  Dragon,  in  the  costume  of 
the  youthful  St.  John  Baptist,  held  the  cross  and  represented  the  soci- 
ety of  that  name.     In  front  of  the  hive  there  was  a  garden  of   natural 


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flowers,  and  in  this  stood  a  monument  eight  feet  high,  on  which  was 
lettered,  "In  honor  of  our  French  boys  who  went  from  Northampton 
to  fight  for  the  glory  of  the  American  Republic."  On  one  side  of  the 
monument  was  also  lettered  the  names  of  thirty-two  French  patriots 
who  served  during  the  Civil  war,  and  on  the  other  side  the  names 
of  fourteen  who  served  in  the  Cuban  and  Philippine  campaigns.  At 
the  right  of  the  monument  stood  Moses  Tessier,  one  of  the  soldiers  of 
the  war  of  the  rebellion,  from  i860  to  1864,  and  at  the  left  Roderique 
Dragon,  brother  of  one  of  the  brave  French  boys  who  died  from  the 
effects  of  the  Cuban  war.     At  the  four  corners  of  the  car  were  four 


St.  Je.\n  Baptiste  Society 


personifications — -Philias  Tardiff,  representing  Washington;  Theophile 
Dragon,  personifying  an  Indian;  John  Baptist  Venne,  representing 
Lafayette,  and  Alfred  H.  Savard,  personifying  Jacques  Cartier.  The 
decorations  of  the  float  were  very  fine,  and  on  top,  sides  and  back  of 
the  float  the  American  coat  of  arms  appeared,  with  the  dates  1654 
and  1904;  at  the  right  "Societee  St.  Jean  Baptiste,  founded  in  1870"; 
at  the  left,    "Societee  St.   Jean  Baptiste,  incorporated  in    1873."     At 


St.  Joseph's  Society  Float,  No.  i 


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273 


the  bottom  of  the  four  corners  appeared  the  names,  Washington,  Non- 
otuck,  Lafayette,  and  Jacques  Cartier.  The  float  was  drawn  by  four 
horses  and  driven  by  Josiah  L.  Briggs,  who  was  costumed  to  repre- 
sent Uncle  Sam.  The  float  was  made  after  plans  and  under  inspection 
of  the  president  of  the  society,  Adolphe  Menard. 

The  St.  Joseph  Society  (L'Union  St.  Joseph)  turned 
out  with  full  ranks,  with  new  badges,  and  carrying  a 
banner  and  two  new  silk  flags.  Their  float  represented 
two  scenes.  One  showed  Generals  Washington,  Lafayette  and  Rocham- 
beau  in  uniform,  at  a  council  of  war  which  history  records  took  place 


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St.     Joseph 


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in  the  vicinity  of  Harlem  and  Kingsbridge.  Sitting  on  their  horses, 
on  the  hills  of  Kingsbridge,  as  witnesses  of  this  battle,  were  the  three 
generals  named,  and  later  they  held  the  council  which  the  float  pic- 
tured. 

The  other  scene,  on  the  same  float,  represented  Lafayette  on  his 


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way  through  Northampton  in  1825,  en  route  to  Boston.  Lafayette 
was  the  bosom  friend  of  Washington,  and  a  dashing  young  officer  who 
left  a  home  of  comfort  and  luxury,  to  share  the  toils  and  sufferings 
of  the  American  soldier,  and  the  scene  pictured  him  as  being  enter- 
tained in  Northampton  by  the  Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates.  The  thought 
of  the  designers  of  this  float — to  also  combine  in  it  a  representation 
of  this  important  event  —  was  a  happy  one,  and  the  managers  were 
fortunately  able  to  procure  for  the  actor  personifying  Mr.  Bates  in  this 
scene,  a  suit  which  was  worn  by  Mr.  Bates  and  is  still  kept  in  the  Bates 
family.  As  in  1S25,  six  little  school  children,  Nora  Lancour,  Flora 
Bernier,  Etta  Morin,  Eveline  Lancour,  Laura  Marier  and  Rachel  La 
Fleur,  were  strewing  flowers  on  the  path  of  Lafayette.  The  float 
was  drawn  by  four  horses,  John  W.  Slattery,  driver;  it  was  of  an  ellip- 
tical shape,  blue  in  color,  trimmed  with  white  flowers  and  national 
colors.  Joseph  F.  A.  Gosselin  represented  Washington,  Victor  Bernier, 
Jr.,  represented  Lafayette  and  Alfeiie  Morin  represented  Rochambeau. 
In  the  council  of  war  Frank  Z.  Lepine  represented  Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates 
and  Joseph  O.  Hebert  personated  Lafayette,  on  his  wav  to  Boston. 
"  Uncle  Sam  "  was  given  an  extremely  appropriate  personation  in 
William  H.  Sperling,  whose  physical  proportions  were  admirably  adapted 
to  the  personation.  The  float  was  escorted  by  twelve  men  of  St. 
Joseph's  Guard,  in  gray  uniform,  with  Napoleon  La  Plant  as  captain. 

Following  the  float  and  the  members  of  the  society,  immediately 
preceding  the  officers,  was  a  globe  of  large  size,  surmounted  by  an 
American  eagle,  representing  the  United  States.  The  sentiment  of 
this  exhibit  was  that  the  American  eagle,  as  the  favorite  emblem  of 
the  nation,  carries  in  its  flight,  on  its  unfolded  wings,  the  light  of  Amer- 
ican ideas  and  civilization,  to  the  people  of  the  world,  and  therefore 
it  was  chosen  by  the  committee  of  arrangements  of  the  society  to  oc- 
cupy a  conspicuous  position  in  the  great  Celebration.  The  globe  and 
eagle  were  drawn  by  twelve  boys  of  the  Sacred  Heart  school :  Rod- 
erick Marier,  Leo  Marier,  Evain  Bouthillette,  Arthur  Lancour,  Albert 
Hebert,  John  Finton,  Alfred  Hebert,  Oscar  Desmarais,  Oscar  Godette, 
Charles  Desmarais,  Alexander  Barbeau  and  Ernest  St.  Jacques.  They 
were  driven  by  little  Eva  Rose  De  Grandpre,  who,  seated  on  the  float, 
was  supposed  to  guide  the  boys  named,  by  twelve  red,  white  and  blue 
ribbons  attached  to  their  persons.  The  float  and  globe  were  designed 
by    Victor    Rocheleau.     The    committee    of    arrangements    were    Her- 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  275 

man  A.  Despault,  president;  Joseph  F.  A.  Gosselin,  secretary;  Richard 
B.  A.  Dominique,  treasurer;  Victor  Rocheleau,  Alcide  Brazeau,  Alfred 
Lemerise,  James  O.  Morin  and  Alexander  Barbeau.  An  unfortunate 
after-incident  was  the  accidental  burning  of  the  entire  float  and  globe, 
with  its  decorations,  shortly  after  the  Celebration,  and  the  society  was 
left  to  mourn  over  a  heap  of  ashes. 

The   youngest    French-American   organization   in   the    city 
.^acrcD  is    the    Sacred    Heart    Cadets,    and    it    appeared    with  an 

Cabcts  artistically    arranged    float,  representing  General  Washing- 

ton crossing  the  Delaware.  The  great  hero  was  person- 
ated bv  Obie  Briant,  and  his  brave  companions  by  Napoleon  Bernier, 
Arthur  Lebeau,  Joseph  Paciuette,  Ernest  La  Fleur,  Alexander  Van- 
asse,  Ernest  Dubois,  Wilhe  Thibodeau,  Stephen  Morin,  Nelson  Du- 
teau,  Aime  Bouthillette.  When  the  procession  reached  the  Sacred 
Heart  church,  on  King  street,  the  school  children,  gathered  there, 
sang  the  national  anthems,  "America,"  "The  Star  Spangled  Banner" 
and  "The  Red,  White  and  Blue."  Their  spirit  of  enthusiasm  was 
increased  by  the  friendly  recognition  of  the  Governor  and  his  staff. 

Court   Duvernav,   No.   93,    Foresters    of    America,   was    es- 
Coiirt  corted   bv   the   members   of   Lafayette   Conclave,    Knights 

j'"or?l''^'  °^  Sherwood  Forest.  The  court  ptit  on  a  float  which  rep- 
resented two  scenes.  The  first  part  pictured  General 
Marion  in  council ;  the  second  illustrated  the  benevolent  system  of 
the  societv.  There  was  a  forest  scene,  with  a  stag  in  the  background, 
and  General  Marion  was  in  council  with  five  soldiers,  in  a  log  cabin. 
The  societv's  benevolent  system  was  illustrated  by  a  sick  man  on  a 
cot,  with  acts  of  sympathy  being  shown  by  the  four  stations  of  the 
order.  The  occupants  were  Wilham  Chouinard,  Napoleon  Dragon, 
Joseph  Ladouceur  and  Hermenegile  Arel,  Indians;  Avetus  Vanasse, 
Marion;  Aristide  Vanasse,  Alphonse  Goulet,  Peter  Lebeau,  Joseph 
Berube,  and  Joseph  Dubois,  soldiers.  Part  second,  sick  man,  Louis 
Edward  Pichette;  Chief  Ranger,  Hector  Vanasse;  sub-Chief  Ranger,  Jo- 
seph A.  Braconnier;  Commander  of  Conclave,  Eugene  B.  Tatro.  Chief 
of  Companions,  Mrs.  Mary  La  Fleur.  The  float  was  drawm  by  four 
horses  in  patriotic  trappings,  driven  by  G.  Frederick  Pelissier,  and  the 
scheme  was  designed  and  arranged  by  William  J.   La  Fleur. 


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The  United  German  societies,  consisting  of  the  German- 

Slnitcti  American  Citizens'   Association,   and  order  of   Harugari, 

v!3crman  ^101^  •  ->    •  . 

.Societies'  '^'''^  bchuetzenverem,   were  represented  m  a   very  artis- 

tic float,  in  which  Germania  was  the  principal  figure, 
supposed  to  be  travehng  through  foreign  countries,  accompanied  bv 
the  personifications  of  Art  and  Music,  surrounded  bv  heralds.  This 
float  was  drawn  by  four  horses,  with  a  mounted  marshal,  Edward  O. 
Gay  lor.  in  the  costume  of  Lohengrin.  The  horses  were  led  by  two 
pages,  Hans  Nietsche  and  Paul  Lauter,  and  the  heralds  were  Christo- 
pher Kreiner,  Herman  Nietsche,  August  Nehring  and  Ludolph  Nehring. 
Germania  was  represented  by  Helene  Hammann,  Music  by  Emma 
Nehring  and  Art  by  Elsie  H.  Stork.  The  float  was  designed  by  Rich- 
ard B.  Eisold  and  decorated  by  Buchholz  of  Springfield. 

-^    .    ^  Primrose  Lodge,   No.    166,   Sons  of  St.   George,  made  a 

.5M.  ^n-or(jc  representation  of  that  mythical  character,  St.  George. 
The  saint  was  personified  in  mailed  armor,  with  helmet, 
sword  and  lance,  and  the  banner  of  St.  George  was  borne  aloft.  Thomas 
Roe  represented  St.  George  and  Richard  March  and  Samuel  Taylor 
two  knights  in  black,  one  at  either  side  of  St.  George,  carrying  sword 
and  lance.  There  were  two  knights  in  civilian  costumes,  in  the  style 
of  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  and  wearing  white  helmets.  These 
knights  were  Harry  Frost  and  Harry  Deplidge.  There  were  two  other 
knights  in  similar  costumes,  Fred  Goodwin  and  Joseph  Tomlinson. 
The  float  was  elaborately  decorated  with  flags  and  bunting,  with  the 
stars  and  stripes  at  the  front  and  the  union  jack  on  the  back.  It 
was  drawn  by  two  horses,  decorated  with  the  national  flag,  and  the 
horses  were  driven  bv  John  Wade. 

^  ,  Capawonke    Tribe,    of    the    Improved    Order    of    Red 

Ccibr,  Men,   contributed  one  of  the  most  appropriate  floats 

3.  €>.  lit.  m.  Qf   ii^Q    day,    representing   a    North    American    Indian 

camp  scene,  with  hunters.  On  the  float,  which  was 
drawn  by  two  horses,  were  the  following:  Prophet  P.  S.,  William  H. 
Carter;  P.  S.,  Joseph  Fischer;  Sr.  Sagamore,  Patrick  Desmond;  Jr. 
Sagamore,  Joseph  Torr;  ist  Sannap,  William  H.  Strong;  2d  Sannap, 
Simeon  A.  Spring;  Buffalo  Bill,  Adolph  Sweeney  and  dog  Jip;  two  mem- 
bers of  Pocahontas  tribe,  Misses  Fanny  Russell  and  Lillian  Fischer; 
young  scouts,  Earl  E.  Chatel  and  Eugene  L.  Farland.  The  float  was 
accompanied  by  the  following  scouts  on  horseback:  Jeremiah  Maloney, 


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John  H.  Guyon,  Joseph  D.  Mariz,  Frank  E.  Jarvis,  Samuel  Michelman, 
Edmund  M.  Chatel,  John  G.  Fischer,  James  J.  Prokup,  Michael  Fitz- 
gerald, Richard  B.  Ennis,  Thomas  S.  Carter,  Martin  Dwyer,  Louis  F. 
Gaylor,  Samuel  Spencer,  Herbert  Oborne,  William  A.  Dwyer,  Joseph 
Wilson,  Joseph  Parent,  James  Rayshall,  Henry  Rau,  George  W.  Martin, 
Maurice  J.  Landry,  Trefle  L.  Vasseur,  John  H.  Longden,  Robert  M. 
McNaughton,  John  W.  Regan,  Michael  Tobin,  Wilham  F.  Walsh, 
Thomas  Fallon. 

Northampton  Council,  Knights  of  Columbus,  No.  480, 
^nl  mh  4  presented   a   float,   representing   a   boat,   with   an   ac- 

companying representation  of  water,  waves,  trees  and 
land,  the  whole  supposed  to  illustrate  the  landing  of  Christopher  Co- 
lumbus in  America.  The  four  horses  attached  to  the  float  were  driven 
by  Thomas  F.  Kearney,  and  the  parts  taken  by  members  of  the  order 
were  as  follows:  Edward  J.  Sheehey,  Christopher  Columbus;  John  E. 
Welch  and  John  J.  Reagan,  Indians;  John  T.  Curtis  and  Patrick  W. 


Knights     of     Columbus 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  281 

Sullivan,  sailors;  Michael  H.  Sullivan,  Matthew  J.  Grogan  and  Joseph 
N.  Dragon,  followers  of  Columbus. 

Meadow   City    Court,    No.    72,    Foresters   of   America, 
"ffoiTt  produced   a  handsome   and  elaborate   float   which   at- 

i'.ofii.  "'  tracted  much  attention,  from  its  harmonious  combin- 
ation of  colors  and  grace  of  drapery. 
This  float  was  drawn  by  four  horses  and  decorated  with  white 
cloth,  with  pink  border,  caught  up  by  bunches  of  ground  pine  and 
pink  roses.  Colors,  pea  green,  pink  and  white.  The  sides  of  the  body 
of  float  were  covered  with  cloth  of  the  colors,  the  cloth  being  shirred, 
and  where  the  colors  met  the  lines  were  covered  with  pink  and  white 
roses.  From  the  standard  rose  an  elk's  head,  the  standard  being 
banked  with  pink  and  white  roses.  From  the  elk's  head  streamers 
were  run  to  the  four  corners  of  the  float,  where  they  were  held  by  oc- 
cupants. On  the  streamers  were  these  banners:  "Liberty,"  "Unity," 
"Benevolence,"  and  "Concord."  In  the  center  of  the  sides  were  gold 
arches,  with  this  inscription,  "Court  Meadow  City,  No.  72."  Chains 
of  evergreen,  intertwined  with  pink  and  white  roses,  were  in  the  front 
and  rear.     The  occupants  and  their  costumes  were  Misses   Katherine 

A.  Torpey,  Odna  M.  Polmatier  and  Edith  G.  Polmatier,  dresses  of  white 
trimmed  with  pink,  white  stockings,  wreaths  of  pink  and  white  roses 
on  their  heads.  Miss  Torpey  wore  a  golden  crown.  Alfred  W.  Law- 
ley  and  John  W.  Bray  wore  pink  trousers,  white  blouses,  white  stock- 
ings, pink  ties  and  pink  hats.  This  float  was  designed  and  arranged  by 
Guy  M.  Miller. 

Florence  Commandery,   No.   31,   United   Order  of  the 

JTiorcnce  Golden  Star,  produced  a  handsome  float,  emblematic 

2S.  >©.  >©.  .4».  '^^  i'ts  name.     Two   horses  with  decorations  drew  this 

float.     There  was  a  large  golden  star  in  the  center  of 

the    float,  with  four  smaller  stars  at  each  corner.     Streamers  ran  from 

the  center  to  the  outside  star.     The  colors  of  the  order,  red,  blue  and 

yellow,   were  used  in  the   color   scheme.     The  occupants  of  the   float 

were  Miss  Alice  A.   Colgan,  Mr.  and  Mrs.   Luther  O.   Childs,  Mr.  and 

Mrs.  Fred  A.  Martin,  Roy  W.  Davenport,  Lilly  M.  Hart,  Miss  Eha  V. 

Joyce,  Miss  Anna  Le  Due  and  Winfrid  Le  Due,  John    J.  Taber    George 

B.  Chase.  The  ladies  were  dressed  in  white  and  carried  red  poppies. 
They  wore  golden  crowns  on  which  were  stars.  The  men  wore  white 
trousers,  white  caps,  and  black  coats.     Two  little  boys  sat  on  top  each 


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side  of  the  large  star.  Master  Kenneth  Childs  was  dressed  in  blue 
trousers,  white  waist  and  blue  sash  and  wore  a  crown.  Master  Howard 
Chase  wore  red  trousers,  white  waist,  red  sash  and   a  crow^n. 

St.  Anne's  Ladies'  Aid  Society  of  Florence  produced 
one  of  the  prize  floats  of  the  day.  This  represented 
twenty-one  young  ladies  of  P'lorence  in  a  boat,  out 
for  a  sail.  Over  the  young  ladies  was  a  canopy  of 
sohd  purple,  relieved  by  heavy  puffed  white  posts,  draped  in  purple 
and  white,  with  the  same  color  in  costumes  and  festoons.  The  base 
was  prettily  and  neatly  draped  in  purple  and  white,  and  the  ladies 
were  all  attired  in  white  sailor  costume,  with  purple  anchors  and  sash 
and  white  outing  hat  ^vith  purple  band.  The  society  carried  their 
own  banner  and  one  of  the  Father  Mathew  Society,  of  which  they  are 
an  auxiharv.  The  occupants  were  Juha  E.  Heffernan,  Katherine  A. 
Hogan,  Mame  I.  Miller,  Delia  J.  Meehan,  Nellie  E.  Lyons,  Lizzie  M. 
Marra,  Lizzie  L  Burke,  Mame  J.  Burke,  Mary  E.   Shaughnessy,  Ella  E. 


St.     Anne's     Society 


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Bartley,  Maud  L.  Kiley,  Mame  H.  Coughlan,  Mame  J.  Ahearn,  Cecilia 
B.  Finn,  Margaret  T.  Meehan,  Anna  L.  Hogan,  Nellie  C.  Finn,  Josie 
E.  Whalen,  Katherine  A.  Tobin,  Annie  G.  Whalen,  Lizzie  I.  Bartley. 
This  float  was  designed  for  the  society  by  the  New  England  Decorating 
Company. 

Crescent  Lodge,  No.  9,  Degree  of  Honor,  auxil- 
J"Jf/J^^  "^°^8c  iary    to    Hampshire    Lodge,    Ancient    Order    of 

United  Workmen,  Florence,  had  an  attractive 
float,  which  drew  a  prize  from  the  judges.  This  float  was  drawn  by 
two  black  horses,  in  harness  trimmed  with  white.  The  decorations 
were  lilac  and  white  bunting,  with  wistaria  and  potted  ferns.  Riding 
on  the  float  were  Mrs.  Jennie  C.  Condon,  Mrs.  Cora  M.  Chase,  Mrs. 
Catherine  Kelly,  Mrs.  Hannah  M.  Bray,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Kilbridge,  Mrs. 
Hannah  O'Connell,  Mrs.  Nettie  L.  Richmond,  Mrs.  Emma  J.  Davis,  Miss 
Frances  E.  Polmatier,  the  Misses  Celia  M.,  Helen  F.  and  Elsie  M.  Condon, 
Lottie  Kelly,  Hazel  Chase,  and  Master  David  J.  Condon.  The  horses 
wore  white  blankets,  trimmed  with  lilacs  and  lettered  with  the  name 
of  the  lodge. 

Northampton  Grange,  No.  138,  Patrons  of  Hus- 
^ortbampton  bandry,    produced    an    historical    float    showing    a 

representation  of  the  homestead  of  Lieutenant  Will- 
iam Clark  in  1659.  There  was  a  log  cabin  on  the  float,  with  a  wood- 
land scene,  drawn  by  two  brown  and  two  bay  horses,  with  blue  and 
yellow  trappings  and  rosettes,  and  the  occupants  were  Luther  A.  Root, 
Dr.  Albert  C.  Rice,  as  Indians;  Edward  P.  West  as  William  Clark;  and 
Mrs.  Edward  P.  West  and  son  as  Mr.  Clark's  famil}^;  settlers,  Clayton 
S.  Parsons,  Charles  A.  Sanderson,  William  Phillips.  This  float  was 
driven  by  Josiah  W.  Parsons,  a  direct  descendant  of  the  old  settler, 
Cornet  Joseph  Parsons. 

A  very  pretty  float  was  that  presented  by  Pride  of 
pntif  of  Meadow    City    Circle,    No.    397,    Companions    of    the 

^ixcit  '         Forest,  auxiliary   to   the  Meadow  City  Court,   Forest- 

ers of  America.  This  float  was  drawn  by  four  horses, 
trimmed  with  bunting  of  nile  green  and  white,  and  white  and  green 
roses,  with  C.  of  F.  of  A.,  No.  397,  on  the  blankets  of  the  horses.  The 
decorations  of  the  float  were  green  and  white  bunting,  white  roses 
and  evergreens  and  silk  American  flags.  The  occupants  were  dressed 
in  white  and  were  members  of  the  Circle.     The  float  was  designed  and 


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arranged  by  Misses  Minnie  A.  Schillare  and  Mary  A.  Lester  and  Mrs. 
Julia  E.  Cox. 

This   was   a   golden   float,   with   four   horses   with 
?Cncicnt  >Drbcr  blankets  of  gold  and  white,  trimmings  of  yellow 

Workmen  ^^^  white  roses,  trailing  pine,      ihere  were  eight 

gilded  posts,  with  an  anchor  at  each  corner  post 
and  shields  on  the  center  posts,  the  emblems  of  the  order.  The  arches 
on  the  posts  were  trimmed  with  yellow  and  white.  There  were  about 
400  members  of  the  society  in  line,  representing  College  City  Lodge  from 
the  center  of  the  city  and  Hampshire  Lodge  of  Florence.  Those  on  the 
float  were  Miss  Mabel  L.  Richmond,  representing  Protection,  carrying  a 
shield;  Miss  Florence  E.  McKenzie,  representing  Charity,  carrying  a 
wreath;  Miss  Elizabeth  B.  Lawley,  representing  Hope,  and  carrying  an 
anchor;  Miss  Marie  G.  Cooney,  representing  Hope  and  carrying  an 
anchor;  and  Miss  Mabel  W.  Hillier,  representing  Chaiity  and  carrying 
a  wreath.  The  members  of  the  degree  team  wore  sailors'  suits,  with 
blue  shirts  and  white  trousers,  and  were  as  follows:  William  Oates, 
John  W.  Bray,  Patrick  J.  Nagle,  George  W.  Hillier,  Luther  H.  Tyler, 
and  Henry  G.  Kelley.  The  float  was  designed  and  arranged  by 
William  Oates  and  Guy  M.  Miller  of  Florence. 

stPntcrurisc      ^^  dainty  and  showy  float  was  contributed  by   Enterprise 
aobfjc,  Lodge,  Degree  of  Honor.     It  was  trimmed  with  pink  and 

'  white   bunting  and  pink  and  white  chrysanthemums  were 

fastened  with  pink  and  white  Irows.  The  occupants  were  the  following 
named  ladies,  wearing  white  hats,  trimmed  with  pink  roses:  Mrs. 
Joseph  Carnall,  Mrs.  William  Oates,  Mrs.  Eliza  J.  Koeber,  Miss  Alice 
Flynn,  Miss  Annie  B.  Latham,  Miss  Mary  G.  Hartung,  Miss  Margaret 
O'Brien,  Miss  Eva  M.  Chesney  and  Mrs.  Harry  Lester.  A^so  James  J. 
Carnall  and  Alfred  C.  Chesney  of  Hampshire  Lodge,  A.  O.  U.  W. 

The  Home  Culture  Clubs'  float  in  the  parade  represented 

Ifomc  a  part  of  the  class  work.      It  was  arranged  in  three  tiers, 

CUibs  ^^^^    trimmed    with    garlands    of    laurel,    the    colors    being 

laurel   pink  and  foliage  green.     On  the   highest   platform 

was  a  round  study  table,  upon  which  were  lamps  and  books.      Four 

men  of  as  many  nationalities   sat   around  the    table,    studying   under 

the  tutelage  of  a  student,  in  cap  and  gown.     The  pillars  at  the  corners, 

which  upheld  the  canopy,  were  supported  by  fine  specimens  of  man- 


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hood,  who  represented  the  physical  culture  work.  On  the  second 
tier  were  members  of  the  cooking  class,  making  bread;  of  the  waitress 
class  polishing  silver,  and  of  the  dressmaking  class  draping  a  lay  fig- 
ure. On  the  lowest  platform  were  little  girls,  representing  the  flower 
garden  competition,  dressed  as  flowers — pansy,  sweet  peas,  ragged 
robin,  forget-me-not,  poppy  and  sunflowers.  The  costumes,  made  of 
crepe  paper,  were  most  realistic,  the  fluttering  skirt,  the  hue  of  the 
flower  represented  the  bodices  and  stockings  of  stem  green.  These 
little  figures,  standing  each  in  her  large  low  flower  pot,  were  among 
the  prettiest  fancies  seen  in  the  parade.  Around  the  base  was  the 
Home  Culture  Clubs'  motto,  in  black  and  gold,  "The  private  home  is 
the  public  hope."  The  whole  was  drawn  by  white  horses,  in  green 
and  rose -colored  trappings. 


Some     Florence     Girls     Come     to     Town 

The  occupants  of  this  float,  representing  class  work,  were  Gustave 
Mimitz,  Herbert  Ingham,  Antonio  B.  Aquadro,  Osias  Bergeron;  gym- 
nastic work,  Antonio  Monteagudo,  Rudolph  Frenier,  Edward  Norman- 
deau,  Henry  Cave;  the  waitress  class  was  represented  by  Miss   Ceciha 


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Fontaine;  the  cooking  class  by  Miss  Etta  Leonard,  and  the  dressmaking 
class  by  Misses  Laura  Bernier,  and  Adeline  M.  La  Plant.  Those  repre- 
senting the  garden  competition  were:  Ragged  Robin,  Minnie  A.  Ash- 
wander;  Golden  Glow,  Irene  Martin;  Forget-me-not,  Mary  M.  Hines; 
Peony,  Agnes  Moran;  Poppy,  Lena  Bernier;  Sweet  Pea,  Dorothy  Loi- 
selle;  Pansy,  Grace  Maloney. 

The  "S.  O.  C."  social  organization  brought  out  a  float, 
the  lower  part  of  which  was  trimmed  with  green  and 
white,  the  latter  color  of  poppies.  The  ladies  wore  green  and  white, 
and  the  two  horses  which  drew  the  float  were  similarly  decorated. 
Those  on  the  float  were  Mrs.  Robert  H.  Clapp,  Mrs.  Homer  B.  Miller, 
Mrs.  Arthur  H.  Spear,  Mrs.  Arthur  L.  Morse,  Mrs.  James  W.  Reid, 
Mrs.  John  Hill,  Mrs.  Edward  B.  Arms  of  South  Deerfield,  Mrs.  Mame 
Stocking,  Mrs.  James  Lathrop,  Miss  Ethleen  N.  Hill,  Miss  Helen  1. 
Clapp,  Master  Floyd  N.  Reed,  Master  Robert  A.  Hill,  Master  Paul  C. 
Knowlton. 


TRADE  FLOATS 

The  line  of  procession  closed  with  a  showing  of  a  few  trade  or 
mercantile  representations,  and  there  would  have  been  many  more 
had  there  been  time  to  prepare  them. 

_.      .     ,    ^       .  .  Manufacturer   of   cigars,    made    an   exhibi- 

(Cimotfin  3 .  ^lantbtiflti  ,  .   ,  , 

tion    which    attracted    much    attention,    m 

showing  an  immense  cigar,  fourteen  feet  long,  lighted  and  burning, 
with  men  in  the  process  of  manufacturing  cigars.  The  float  was  trimmed 
with  bunting  and  the  occupants  were:  Cigar  makers,  Winfield  S.  White- 
lock,  Thomas  F.  Mahar,  Orin  Lashaway,  Thomas  M.  Blanchfield,  Tim- 
othy J.  Blanchfield,  John  A.  Parnell;  Indians,  John  R.  Lynn,  Coleman 
W.  F.  Lewis,  and  James  F.  Carberry.  The  float  was  designed  and 
arranged  by  Timothy  J.  Blanchfield.  The  horses  were  trimmed  w4th 
patriotic  bunting  and  they  were  driven  by  Augustus  A.  Clapp. 

_         ..  ^    ^  Had  a   one-horse-load  of  ladders,    decorated 

XconarD  M.  I^orton  .  ,    ^  ^    ,^  ,    ,   .      '  .^        , 

with  bunting  and  nags,  and  driven  bv  r^rank 

Morrill,  showing  the  ladder  business.  Another  car,  by  the  same  party, 
represented  Uncle  Sam  and  Columbia  and  twelve  boys  and  girls  rid- 
ing in  a  "steel  swing,"  "steel  settee"  and  "rocker  swing."  The  dec- 
orations were  of  bunting,  evergreen  and  flowers,  and  the  float  was  drawn 
by  two  horses,  driven  by  Joseph  Murray,  dressed  as  Uncle  Sam.  The 
occupants  were:  Columbia,  Alice  Bridgman;  John  J.  Dunn,  William 
Deady,  Henry  L.  Cave,  William  Boss,  Gallon  A.  Hinds,  Arthur  R.  Camp, 
Newell  G.  Flood,  Mary  A.  Dunn,  Louise  A.  Nuttall,  Hazel  M.  Flood, 
May  B.  Papineau,  Bertha  M.  Porter,  Gladys  L.  Duffey,  Mabel  E.  Sweet- 
ser,  Minnietta  Edwards.    . 

»,■   I.  »» «    ^       r-  The    coal   business   was   not    neglected,    as   three 

ftimbaJK  *;  Car)?  Co.  ^  ' 

of  the  dealers  in  town  put  in  a  display  of  their 
teams,  in  good  shape.  Kimball  &  Cary  Co.  had  two  wagons,  one  trim- 
med in  black  and  yellowy  driven  by  George  Duffney;  the  other,  trimmed 
in  yellow  and  white,  was  driven  bv  William  Rea. 

The  W.  A.  Clark  Coal  Co.  appeared  with  a  tandem 
Coai  Co.  team,  handsomely  decorated  with  flags  and  bunting, 

and  the  horses  w^ere  driven  by  employes  dressed  in 
white.  The  men  in  charge  were:  Benjamin  Boyer,  Eli  Lafranier,  Jr., 
Dennis  Cashman,  William  J.  Hanlon,  Dominique  Loster,  Myron  L. 
Elw^ell. 


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^iHiam  ii?  tMct  William  H.  Rice  of  Florence  advertised  the  coal 

business,  and  his  name  in  gilt  letters  was  on  the 
blankets  of  the  two  leading  horses,  the  blankets  of  the  horses  being 
white.  The  float  was  trimmed  in  red,  white  and  blue,  with  red  pop- 
pies. The  center  was  roof-shaped,  with  boys  stationed  at  each  corner, 
dressed  in  white  suits  and  carrying  shovels  of  white  and  gold.  The 
whole  float  was  trimmed  so  as  to  bring  out  the  word  "Coal."  The 
driver  was  Frank  E.  Goodrich  and  the  occupants  were  Robert  H.  Bray, 
Ralph  E.  Boynton,  John  H.  Vickus  and  Raymond  N.  Ruiter.  Guy 
M.  Miller  was  the  designer. 

One  of  the  best  trade  exhibitions  was  made  by  the 
La  Fleur  Bros.,  the  Pleasant  street  painters.  They 
put  on  a  float  representing  the  business  of  painting,  papering,  deco- 
rating, etc.  There  was  a  pyramid  of  paint  pails  and  a  representation 
of  the  earth,  in  a  globe,  upon  which  liquid  paint  seemed  to  be  pour- 
ing slowly  from  a  pail,  and  forming  the  various  divisions  of  land  in 
the  eastern  and  western  hemispheres,  the  inference  being  that  So-and- 
So's  paint  "covered  the  earth."  There  was  also  a  pyramid  of  wall 
paper.  The  float  was  of  white,  with  red  and  blue  trimmings,  drawn 
by  five  horses  in  patriotic  trappings,  driven  by  William  J.  La  Fleur, 
who  also  designed  and  arranged  the  float. 

Put  on  a  verv  interesting  float,  which  included 
a  mahogany  bedstead  200  years  old,  bemg  ten 
feet  in  height,  about  5  J  feet  wide,  and  nearly  nine  feet  in  length.  The 
posts  and  the  bed  drapery  represented  was  of  the  style  of  200  vears 
ago.  A  high-boy  and  low-boy  were  also  shown,  at  one  time  owned 
by  the  great-grandfather  of  R.  H.  White  of  Boston.  A  venerable 
old  sofa  and  chairs  completed  the  articles  on  the  float. 

Sewell  M.  Elliott  had  a  creditable  two-horse 
float  to  advertise  his  upholstering  business. 
It  was  decorated  in  white  and  yellow  and  was  occupied  by  a  dozen 
little  girls,  dressed  in  white.  Little  Irene  H.  Elliott,  two  and  a  half 
years  old,  sat  under  a  canopy  in  the  center,  and  she  was  dressed  in 
yellow.  The  girls  on  the  float  were  Maude  E.  Elliott,  Mildred  G. 
Elliott,  Lizzie  Seymour,  Edna  L.  Tatro,  Edith  M.  Sanderson,  Esther 
E.  McGrath,  Ida  M.  Strong,  Marion  L.  Briggs,  Sultana  B.  Jones,  Har- 
riet N.  Evans,  Ruth  E.  Selden  and  Maude  E.  Rickey. 


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panics  JF,  .Shannon 


James  F.  Shannon  of  Florence  had  a  float  intended 
to  advertise  his  business  as  an  agent  of  the  Wheeler 
&  Wilson  sewing  machines  and  his  wife's  dry  goods  business.  The  float 
was  decorated  with  yellow  and  black  cloth,  and  four  little  girls,  prettily 
dressed,  stood  on  the  affair.  Their  names  were  Frances  M.,  Anna  H. 
ani  Hehn  P.  Shannon,  Marcella  C.  Powers  and  Hazel  M.  Berard.  Mr. 
Shannon  and  Gerald  Lvnch  were  also  on  the  team. 


James     F  .     Shannon's     Flo  a  t 


•?Cmcrican 


The  local  express  companies  made  a  good  represen- 
tation of  their  interests  in  the  line.  The  American 
Express    Company   decorated   one   of   its   best   teams 

with  the  national  colors,  and  Frederick  S.  Roberts  controlled  the  team 

as  driver. 


■?tbams 
(iircprcss  Co. 


The  Adams  Express  Company  had  one  of  its  spare 
teams  in  line,  handsomely  decorated  with  flags  and 
bunting,   and   Lewis   L.    Bartlett   officiated   as   driver. 


P    A     R    //     /)    /':         MEMORABILIA 

It  was  not  necessary  for  C'hairnian  Irwin  of  the  Parade  Committee 
to  head  the  procession  to  see  that  he  was  the  "king  pin"  of  the 
finest   scheme   of   the    kind    e\-er    worked    out   in    Northampton. 

His  aids  all  i)ro\-cMl  their  title  to  the  name,  too.  Most  of  them  were 
engaged  in  the  i)rei)aralory  work. 

Almost  ever\-l)od\-  agreed  that  tlu'  old  settlers'  team  from  South- 
ampton should  ha\-c>  drawn  the  first  jiri/A',  and  it  was  a  pit\-  it  did  not 
show  itself  farther  down  the  street,  in  front  of  the  judges'  stand. 

The  cordial,  whole-hearted  waN-  in  whit'h  the  towns  of  Easthamp- 
ton,  vSouthami)ton  and  Westham])ton  entered  into  the  Celebration,  b}' 
their  disi)lay  Tuesday,  won  thi'  hearts  of  all  Northam])tonians,  and 
there  ma\-  be  an  oi)])orlunit  \'   for  reeiproeit\'  somi'time. 

No  ])laee  was  more  appropriate  for  the  gr;i\-  and  grizzled  veterans 
of  the  Crand  Army  than  the  ])Osition  of  honor,  leading  all  the  soci- 
eties, in  this  parade.  But  for  their  heroic  service,  Northampton  would 
probabh"  ne\'cr  ha\"e  cared  t(^  celebrate. 

The  Irish-Americans,  who  have  contributed  so  much  to  the  up- 
building of  the  citv  —  and  some  of  whose  names  have  been  foremost, 
and  becoming  increasingly  so,  in  positions  of  honor  and  business — - 
were  represented  in  the  parade  by  a  float  of  the  Father  Mathew  soci- 
ety and  a  marching  t'olumn  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  of 
which,  unfortunately,  ])it'tures  were  not  i)reserved  or  taken.  The 
value  which  an  advance  i)re|)aration  for  this  book  would  have  had, 
is  thus  shown,  in  a  striking  way.  Had  the  Executive  and  Finance 
Committee  been  sufficiently  ]n-ovided  with  funds,  many  interesting 
pictures  could  hax'c  bt'cn  secured  of  this  and  other  features  of  the  parade, 
which  would  have  been  nuich  ai)])reciated  in  tliis  work.  It  is  a  cause 
for  congratidation  that,  considering  the  drawbacks,  so  much  has  been 
obtained  as  is  here  shown. 

The  German  people  had  one  of  the  handsomest  floats  in  the  pro- 
cessit)n,  for  which  the  national  character,  Germania,  furnished  the 
theme.  The  Germans  were  united,  {ov  once  at  least,  and  when  they 
do  get  top'ether,  thc\-  make  an  imiircssion. 

Edwanl  O.  Ga\lor  made  an  ideal  Ltdiengrin,  anil  many  admiring 
glances  were  cast  in  his  direction. 

The  Sons  of  St.  George  jiroNcd  their  loyalty  to  their  adopted 
countr\',  in   the   part    thc\-   took  in   the  ])aradc.  and   their  presence  was 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  293 


a  gracious  recognition   of  the  share  which  their  ancestors  had  in  the 
founding  of  this  government. 

Polisli  and  Italian  ])eo|)le  were  missed  in  the  procession,  but  they 
will  ])robal)ly  be  ready  for  and  likely  to  have  an  important  part  in  the 
300th,  or  275th  anniversary  celebration. 

Was  there  anybody  on  Main  street  who  did  not  see  the  parade  ? 
Yes,  there  were  a  number  right  r)n  the  street  who  did  not  see  it,  at 
least  in  its  entirety,  and  if  one  had  looked  in  at  the  f)ress  headquarters 
on  Crafts  avenue,  he  would  have  seen  a  corps  of  newspaper  men  as 
busily  employed  as  if  the  greatest  show  ever  in  Northampton  was  not 
going  on  right  under  their  noses.  But  they  saw  it  through  the  tops 
of  their  heads,  all  the  same. 

The  Patriarchs  Militant  of  the  Order  of  Odd  I'cllows  attracted 
much  attention  with  their  showy  unifrjrms  and  fine  marching.  The 
college  girls  at  the  Elm-street  boarding  houses  gave  them  hearty  ap- 
plause and  flung  over  them,  from  the  l)alconies,  long  rolls  of  colored 
paj)er  ribbon. 

It  was  surprising  how  manv  ])eo]jle  on  the  line  (jf  march  stayed 
in  their  own  homes  during  the  ]jarade.  There  was  hardly  a  house 
closed  on  the  route.  People  somehow  seemed  to  have  gotten  the  im- 
pression that  crooks  f>r  thieves  would  get  into  their  homes  if  they  left 
them  during  the  parade,  and  almost  everybody  stoofl  guard  over  his 
"lares  and  penates" — his  household  gods  or  goods.  This  might  have 
been  caused  by  the  notice  given  from  the  ])olice  department,  that 
people  should  lock  their  houses  if  they  left  them  during  the  parade. 
vSome  folks  were  evidently  determined  to  take  no  chances. 

Some  of  the  peojjle  r)n  the  floats,  with  tender  limbs  and  rather 
unyielding  bodies,  were  bruised  black  and  blue  and  lamed  all  over, 
by  standing  posed  on  the  floating,  jostling,  oscillating  floats  during 
the  four-mile  march. 

One  of  the  ])rettiest  features  of  the  ])arade  was  the  gathering  of 
several  hundred  school  childien  on  the  triangular  green,  in  front 
of  Smith  College  and  their  singing  of  patriotic  songs  and  waving  of 
greetings  to  Governor  Bates  anrl  party  as  they  passed  in  their  car- 
riages. Those  school  children,  many  of  whr)m  will  doubtless  live  to 
see  the  three  hundredth  anniversary,  have  many  a  pleasant  pictiu-e 
filed  away  in  memory's  gallery. 


294  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

The  decorated  carriages  formed  one  of  the  most  appreciated  feat- 
ures of  the  parade,  and  were  the  first  exhibition  of  the  kind  seen  in 
Northampton.  Several  previous  attempts  to  produce  such  an  exhi- 
bition had  failed,  which  made  the  Celebration  success  all  the  more 
appreciated. 

Samuel  S.  Campion  of  Northampton,  England,  was  the  lion  of  the 
day,  and  after  the  parade  he  had  more  invitations  to  tarry  awhile 
than  he  knew  what  to  do  with.  As  it  was,  he  skipped  Boston,  which 
he  had  intended  to  visit,  and  spent  another  day  in  the  city  after  the 
Celebration,  visiting   points  of  interest  roundabout. 

Marshal  Frederick  G.  Jager  showed  consummate  skill  by  the 
manner  in  which  he  marshaled  his  procession  of  automobiles  from  miles 
around,  and  it  was  a  good  advertisement  for  the  modern  industry, 
in  which  he  is  interested. 

Although  no  portrait  of  the  gallant  General  Seth  Pomeroy  is  ex- 
tant, he  was  remembered  in  the  parade,  by  his  descendant,  William 
C.  Pomeroy  of  Northampton,  who  simulated  the  General's  ride  forth 
to  the  battles  of  the  Revolution. 

Not  since  the  days  of  Major  Longley,  until  this  parade,  had  the 
high  sheriff  of  Hampshire  county  worn  a  rosette  in  his  tall  hat.  It 
made  one  think  of  the  Major's  gala  days,  to  see  Sheriff  Clark  out  with 
the  rosette. 

Colonel  Williams,  in  uniform  again,  reminded  many  of  the  time, 
not  so  long  ago,  when  he  wore  one  in  the  service  of  his  country. 

Among  those  who  rode  in  the  parade  and  enjoyed  the  affair  highly 
was  Mrs.  Drusilla  Hall  Johnson,  then  almost  99  years  old  and  now 
over  100,  and  a  real  Daughter  of  the  Revolution.  She  with  Austin 
Packard,  who  is  95,  are  believed  to  be  the  oldest  persons  in  town,  at 
the  time  of  the  publication  of  this  book.  Their  portraits  are  given 
in  this  volume. 


AFTER 


THE 


PARADE 


Following  the  parade,  people  dispersed  gradually,  in  pait,  many 
returning  to  their  homes,  while  others  went  to  the  various  restaurants 
and  hotels  for  dinner.  Some  went  to  the  Home  Culture  Clubs'  house, 
wdiere  excellent  fare  was  provided  at  a  low  price,  and  many  more  were 
entertained  at  the  Masonic,  Odd  Fellows  and  other  fraternal  society 
rooms,  where  open  house  was  kept  for  friends.  By  this  means  every 
one  was  cared  for  somehow,  and  no  one  lacked  such  entertainment 
as  could  be  afforded.  After  dinner,  many  stayed  down  town  and 
others  returned  to  hear  the  band  concerts,  and  later  attended  the 
baseball  game  on  the  driving  park.  This  latter  entertainment,  how- 
ever, was  not  a  part  of  the  Celebration  program,  Tuesday,  being 
arranged  for  as  an  independent  feature,  that  day. 


HOPE  writes  the  poetry  of  the  boy,  but  memorj^  that  of  the  man.      Man 
looks  forward  with    smiles,    but   backward  with  sighs.      Such  is  the 
wise    providence    of   God.     The   cup    of   life   is   the   sweetest    at  the 
brim ;  the  flavor  is   impaired  as  we  drink  deeper,   and  the  dregs  are  made 
bitter  that  we  may  not  struggle  when  it  is  taken  from  our  lips. — Anon. 


There  comes  to  me  out  of  the  Past 
A  voice  whose  tones  are  sweet  and  wild, 
Singing  a  song  almost  divine. 
And  with  a  tear  in   every  line. 

Longfellow 


A  man  advanced  in  years,  that  thinks  to  look  back  upon  his  former 
life,  and  call  that  only  life  which  was  passed  with  satisfaction  and  enjoy- 
ment, excluding  all  parts  which  were  not  pleasant  to  him,  will  find  himself 
very  young  if  not  in  his  infancy. — Steele. 


We  look  before  and  after, 
And  pine  for  what  is  not; 

Our  sincerest  laughter 

With  some  pain   is  fraught; 

Our  sweetest  songs  are  those 
That  tell  of  saddest  thought. 

Shelley 


Behold  we  know  not  anj^thing; 

I  can  but  trust  that  good  will  fall 
At  last — -far  off  —  at  last,   to  all  — 

And  every  winter  change  to  spring. 

Tennyson 


COLLATION    AND    POST-PR  A  N  DLAL 
EXERCISES     IN    THE     PAVILION 


THE  last  function  of  the  daylight  hours  was  a  semi-formal  one, 
being  the  collation  and  speeches  in  the  pavilion  at  the  rear  of 
the  Forbes  library.  The  collation,  furnished  by  Edwin  C. 
Barr  of  Springfield,  was  ready  about  two  o'clock,  and  could 
hardly  be  called  a  formal  afTair,  though  the  post-prandial  exercises 
following  might  have  been  so  denominated.  About  six  hundred 
people,  fully  one-half  women,  gathered  at  the  pavilion,  and  the  affair 
resembled  a  huge  family  gathering,  the  assembly  being  plainly  a 
meeting  of  descendants  of  the  older  families,  for  the  most  part,  the 
members  of  whom  had  come  together  to  talk  and  be  talked  to  about 
old  times.  There  were  old  familiar  faces  from  every  part  of  the 
country,  and  everybody  seemed  to  be  enjoying  himself.  The  spirit  of 
the  occasion  was  delightful,  and  fraternization  was  the  order  of  the 
hour  preceding  the  speeches. 

The  general  public  were  admitted  on  the  west  side  of  the  tent 
and  passed  along  to  serving  tables  on  the  east  side,  the  following  menu 
beins:  served: 


^& 


Oyster  Patties  Fish  Croquettes 

Cold  Ham 
Cold  Chicken  Cold  Tongue 

Bread  and  Butter  Sandwiches 
Vegetable  Salad  Rolls  Celery  Salad 

Cake 
Ice  Cream  Coffee 

There  were  two  enclosures  of  seats,  and  persons  receiving  the  first 
course  took  seats  on  benches  in  the  first  enclosure,  until  they  had  dis- 
posed of  their  first  helping.  Then,  returning  their  plates,  they  re- 
ceived the  second  course  and  with  it  returned  to  seats  in  the  second 
area,  where  they  remained  to  hear  the  music  and  speeches. 

On  the  platform  was  a  table  extending  across  the  full  width  of 
the  tent,  at  which  sat  the  speakers  and  guests  of  honor.  Judge  Will- 
iam G.  Bassett,  the  toastmaster,  sat  at  the  center  of  the  table,  facing 
the  listeners,  and  Governor  Bates  sat  at  his  right  hand  and  Mayor 
Hallett  at  his  left.  The  Northampton  Band,  which  furnished  music 
at  intervals,  was  placed  at  the  rear  and  left  of  the  toastmaster.  The 
press  representatives  sat  behind  the  toastmaster  and  the  other  invited 
guests  were  on  the  rising  tiers  of  seats  beyond. 


298  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


At  the  table  with  Judge  Bassett,  Governor  Bates  and  Mayor  Hal- 
lett,  sat  the  following:  Congressman  Frederick  H.-Gillett,  Alderman 
Samuel  S.  Campion  of  Northampton,  England,  Christopher  Clarke, 
Rear  Admiral  Francis  A.  Cook,  Mayor  Arthur  B.  Chapin  of  Holyoke, 
City  Clerk  Egbert  I.  Clapp,  Timothy  G.  Spaulding,  William  A.  Steven- 
son, Ernest  W.  Hardy,  Councilor  and  Mrs.  Frederick  S.  Hall  of  Taunton, 
Councilor  and  Mrs.  Edwin  R.  Hoag  of  Chelsea,  Councilor  and  Mrs. 
George  R.  Jewett  of  Salem,  Councilor  and  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Watson  of 
Lowell,  Councilor  and  Mrs.  Arthur  S.  Lowe  of  Fitchburg,  Executive 
Secretary  and  Mrs.  Edward  F.  Hamlin  of  Boston,  Private  Secretary 
and  Mrs.  Francis  Hurtubis,  Jr.,  of  Boston,  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Hallett, 
Mrs.  John  L.  Bates,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  W.  Irwin,  Principal  Clar- 
ence B.  Roote,  Superintendent  of  Schools  Jacob  H.  Carfrey,  Louis 
D.  Gibbs  of  Washington,  Town  Clerk  Joseph  W.  Wilson,  Selectmen 
Jairus  F.  Burt,  George  S.  Colton  and  John  Cullen  and  John  N. 
Lyman  of  Easthampton,  Aldermen  Edward  J.  Jarvis  and  John  J. 
Kennedy,  Thomas  F.  McCabe  of  Holyoke,  Robert  W.  Lyman,  Dis- 
trict Attorney  Dana  Malone  of  Greenfield,  Judge  Loranus  E.  Hitch- 
cock of  Chicopee,  Colonel  Embury  P.  Clark  of  Springfield,  Principal 
Joseph  H.  Sawyer  of  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Rev.  Dr.  L. 
Clark  Seeh'e,  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  T.  Rose  and  ex-Mayor  Arthur  Watson 
of  Northampton. 

POSr-PRJNDIAL      EXERCISES 

FOLLOWING  the  collation,  and  music  by  the  band.  Judge  Bassett, 
as  toastmaster,  called  the  assembly  to  order,  speaking  as  follows: 
"  This  occasion  is,  as  a  familv  gathering  ought  to  be,  a  jubilee 
of  the  heart.  Fondness  and  admiration  for  the  old  town  have  been  ex- 
pressed by  every  one  attending  the  exercises.  One  thing  seems  to  have 
impressed  all  more  prominently  than  anything  else,  and  that  is  the 
broadness,  the  true  catholicity,  of  the  exercises  thus  far.  The  orations 
of  yesterday,  able,  scholarly,  instructive  and  fascinating,  dealt  broadly 
with  their  subject.  It  is  true  that  we  have  been  studying  the  lives  of 
the  men  and  women  of  the  past,  but  if  anv  one  came  here — as  prob- 
ably no  one  did — to  hear  his  particular  ancestor  or  his  particular 
family  singled  out  and  glorified,  he  was  destined  to  be  disappointed. 
Northampton  as  an  entity  is  the  keynote  of  these  exercises. 


NORTHAMPruN,  MASSACHl  Sr/FTS 


299 


"  It  was  suggested  in  the  Spring- 
field Republican  of  Sunday  that 
the  essence  of  the  best  New  Eng- 
land flavor  was  still  alive  in  North- 
ampton. This  is  especially  grati- 
fying to  those  who,  not  born  here, 
have  shown  their  discrimination  by 
selecting  this  as  a  place  of  residence 
and  of  business.  They  have,  in  a 
sense,  taken  the  places  of  some  of 
those  sons  of  Northampton  who  have 
been  lured  from  their  goodly  heritage 
by  the  hope  of  riches  or  renown,  or 
the  hope  of  being  more  useful,  in 
some  more  needy  field. 

"Among  those  who  have^  selected 

Northampton  as  a  place  of  business 

and    a    home,     prominent    is    Henry 

C.   Hallett,   and   Northampton  has   reciprocated — -it    has   elected   him 

Mayor,  and  re-elected   him  for   thisjyear  of  jubilee,  and  he  will   now 

speak  to  you.     His  Honor,  Mayor  Hallett."     [Applause.] 


Jl'D(;e  William  G.  Bassett 


BODress  of  "Melcome  b^  /IRagor  Iballett 

Mr.   Toastmaster  and  Friends  of  North- 
ampton: 

The  quarter-millennium  whose  close 
we  commemorate  means  much  to  an 
American  community.  It  has  witnessed 
the  conquest  of  a  wilderness  and  the 
birth  of  a  nation.  It  has  seen  a  new 
people  formed  from  men  of  many  races. 
It  has  seen  new  theories  of  government 
become  established  facts.  It  has  seen 
that  nation  take  first  rank  among  the 
powers  of  the  world  and  that  people 
become  the  teachers  of  the  peoples  of 
the  earth. 

In  all  these  things  Northampton 
has  had  her  place  and  her  people  have 
had  their  part.  The  history  of  America 
and  of  Massachusetts  is  her  historv,  and 


Mavur   Henry  C.  Hallett 


300  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

with  their  deeds  she  has  had  to  do.  Sons  and  daughters  of  North- 
ampton have  won  distinction  in  the  Commonwealth  and  the  Nation, 
and  their  names  are  not  without  honor  where  American  history  is  read 
and  American  institutions  are  studied.  The  names  of  Joseph  Haw- 
ley,  Seth  Pomeroy,  Caleb  Strong  and  Isaac  C.  Bates  have  no  small 
place  in  the  history  of  Massachusetts,  and  we  of  Northampton  delight 
to  recall  their  deeds  and  to  honor  their  memory. 

And  yet  a  just  appreciation  of  the  meaning  of  this  occasion  demands 
that  we  give  especial  thought  to  the  unnumbered  thousands  whose  fame 
was  never  known  outside  the  limits  of  this  community,  and  the  names 
of  the  greater  part  of  whom  are  today  unknown  even  here.  No  man 
can  lead  if  he  have  not  earnest  followers,  and  the  wisest  cannot  teach 
those  who  do  not  understand.  It  is  to  the  intelligence,  the  enthusiastic 
determination,  and  the  steadfastness  of  the  great  mass  of  the  "plain 
people"  that  Massachusetts  and  America  owe  their  history;  and  therein 
Northampton  has  taken  and  today  does  take  no  second  place.  The 
fertile  and  wide-spreading  meadows,  which  are  and  have  been  always 
Northampton's  proudest  natural  attraction,  drew  here  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years  ago  the  pioneers  of  the  new  civilization;  strong,  earnest 
and  determined  men  and  women,  broad-minded  and  enlightened.  Dur- 
ing all  her  early  life  Northampton  was  a  farming  community,  and  today 
this  industry  is  one  of  our  best  beloved,  and  the  descendants  of  the 
early  settlers  still  till  the  soil  their  fathers  broke.  The  passage  of  time 
has  brought  the  addition  of  the  trader,  the  manufacturer,  and  the 
mechanic,  and  all  the  states  of  the  nation  and  all  the  countries  of  the 
earth  have  contributed  their  part  to  the  slow  but  steady  increase  of 
the  numbers  of  our  people.  Yet  the  same  spirit  that  erected  the  school- 
house  with  the  meeting-house  has  grown  stronger  with  the  passage  of 
time.  The  enlightenment  of  her  people  and  their  appreciation  of  the 
advantages  of  learning  have  come  to  make  Northampton  especially 
distinguished  and  everywhe:e  known.  Today  her  sons  and  daughters 
and  the  foster  children  of  her  schools  give  effect  to  her  teaching  in  all 
the  earth. 

To  them,  wherever  they  are,  and  especially  to  those  of  them  who 
come  back  today  to  the  old  home  after  years  of  absence,  we  give  this 
message  and  this  assurance.  Though  time  has  changed  the  outward 
appearance  of  Northampton  so  that  the  eye  may  hardly  recognize  one 
familiar  feature,  and  though  the  faces  of  our  people  are  as  the  faces  of 
strangers,  the  atmosphere  we  breathe  has  undergone  no  change.  North- 
ampton is  today  a  modern  city.  The  men  who  control  her  destinies 
are  men  of  enterprise,  advanced  in  thought  and  action.  And  the  face 
of  things  has  changed.  But  the  spirit  of  the  men  who  established  this 
community  and  maintained  it  in  its  early  years  is  the  spirit  of  our 
people  today.  We  have  prospered  measurably  in  the  goods  of  this 
world,  but  wealth  has  brought  no  unseemly  ostentation.  The  ideals  of 
plain  living  and  high  thinking,  that  made  Northampton  a  distinguished 
New  England  community  years  ago,  are  our  ideals. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  301 

To  the  ancient  city  of  Northampton  in  England,  which  confers 
upon  her  namesake  the  distinguished  honor  of  official  representation 
in  the  person  of  one  of  her  most  illustrious  sons,  we  present  the  assur- 
ance of  our  most  affectionate  regard. 

To  the  Commonwealth,  which  honors  us  with  the  presence  of  her 
distinguished  chief  magistrate,  we  extend  the  greetings  of  a  loyal  sub- 
ject and  a  devoted  daughter. 

And  to  our  returning  sons  and  daughters,  to  our  friends,  and  to 
the  stranger  within  our  gates,  we  give  a  most  heartv  welcome. 


Judge  Bassett.  It  is  very  gracious  on  the  part  of  His  Excellency 
the  Governor  to  say  adieu  to  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  and 
to  the  Legislature,  and  to  come  here,  where  he  was  so  much  desired 
and  where  everybody  always  is  delighted  to  see  him. 

Northampton  once  furnished  a  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  and 
the  only  reason  she  has  not  been  furnishing  Governors  ever  since  is 
because  the  supply  is  far  in  excess  of  the  demand.  If  Governor  Bates 
was  our  very  own  by  birth  or  by  adoption,  he  still  would  not  be  our 
Governor,  he  would  be  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth,  but  we  can 
claim  him  as  consistently  and  as  fully  as  any  section  can. 

I  am  not  aware  that  the  power  of  the  Governor  has  been  diminished 
in  these  modern  times,  except  that  a  statute  has  taken  away  the  right 
and  privilege  and  duty  he  formerly  had  of  issuing  a  proclamation  for 
a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  but  there  has  been  compensation  for  the 
loss  by  a  judicious  exercise  of  the  veto  power,  which  renders  fasting  and 
prayer  less  necessary.     [Applause  and  laughter.] 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  present  to  you  the  gentleman  for  whom 
you  are  waiting,  His  Excellency,  Governor  John  L.  Bates.     [Applause.] 

BDOress  of  ©overnor  JSates 

Mr.  Chairman: 

I  have  not  seen  any  opportunities  to  exercise  that  choice  prerog- 
ative to  which  you  have  just  referred  since  I  came  among  you,  and 
unless  I  get  back  to  Boston  pretty  soon,  I  am  afraid  my  right  hand  will 
forget  its  cunning  in  that  respect. 

There  has  been  no  occasion,  as  representing  the  Commonwealth, 
for  me  to  criticize  anything  that  Northampton  has  done.  It  seems 
strange  that  I  should  come  here  representing  the  mother  and  find  the 
daughter  two  hundred  and  fifty  A^ears  old  and  the  mother  considerably 
less.  [Laughter.]  And  yet  I  suppose  that  the  relationship  is,  never- 
theless, that  of  a  parent  and  a  child.  Certainlv  I  have  had  the  fond 
feeling  that  a  parent  must  have  as  I  have  looked  upon  this  beautiful 
city  in  the  midst  of  its  festivities.  I  have  been  almost  amazed  at  the 
magnitude   of  this  Celebration ;   it   has  been  such   a  revelation   of  the 


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Governor  John  L.  Bates 


civic  Spirit,  of  the  interest  in  the 
pubhc  welfare,  on  the  part  of  vour 
people. 

I  was  pleased  to  attend  your  exer- 
cises in  the  church,  where  I  heard 
you  offer  prayer  and  praise  for  all 
that  had  been  accomplished  in  these 
two  hundred  and  fifty  years,  on  the 
old  site  where  for  two  hundred  and 
fifty  years,  well  nigh,  voices  have 
ascended  to  God,  asking  for  His 
blessing  upon  this  new  people  on 
the  western  shore.  I  thought  it  was 
very  appropriate  that  you  should 
follow  it  with  the  concert  of  song  and 
praise,  in  recognition  of  the  wonder- 
ful Providence  that  had  guided  you 
throughout  vour  historv.  I  was 
pleased  to  listen  to  the  eloquence  of 
those  who  spoke  to  us  in  the  Acad- 
emy yesterday,  telling  the  proud 
story  of  Northampton's  history,  and  it  was  also  a  pleasure  to  look  upon 
that  magnificent  parade  today,  that  also  indicated  the  history  of  this 
people,  in  those  artistic  floats,  indicating  that  which  had  been  for  the 
defence  of  the  people  in  the  bodies  of  the  militia,  and  indicating  pros- 
perity and  the  progress  of  the  times  in  that  last,  almost  silent,  but 
beautiful  division  of  the  automobiles. 

It  has  been  to  me  fitting,  therefore,  as  I  have  gone  over  the  history 
of  the  past  in  my  mind,  that  we  should  come  here  for  pretty  nearly  the 
close,  to  enjoy  the  good  things  together  and  to  realize  that  we  had  been 
a  wonderfully  prosperous  people. 

My  good  friend  with  whom  I  am  stopping  told  me  the  other  night 
that  I  would  be  expected  to  say  some  word  for  the  Commonwealth. 
I  felt  something  as  Governor  Long  said  he  felt  when  he  began  his  address 
yesterday.  There  is  nothing  left  to  be  said  upon  Northampton.  There 
is  nothing  left  to  be  said  upon  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 
And  I  began  to  think  as  to  what  the  Commonwealth  was  and  to  ask 
myself  the  question,  "What  is  Massachusetts?"  And  as  I  began  to 
think  I  fell  asleep,  and  I  had  a  dream,  and  there  was  a  mysterious 
genius  came  to  me  and  beckoned  me,  and  I  followed  him  through  the 
woods  and  the  wilds  until  we  stood  on  a  lofty  mountain.  And  I  said, 
"Who  are  you,  strange  creature?"  He  said,  "I  am  the  genius  of 
Mount  Tom.  I  have  heard  your  question,  'What  is  Massachusetts?' 
and  it  is  my  pleasure  now  to  reveal  to  you  this  that  we  call  Massachu- 
setts." He  said,  "Look  far  away."  And  I  looked  far  away.  He 
said,  "Away  off  there  in  the  east  you  see  that  line  of  silver.     That  is 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  303 

the  breaking  sea."  "Well,"  I  said,  "is  Massachusetts  in  the  sea?" 
"No,"  he  said.  "For  thousands  of  years  old  ocean  has  raged  upon 
this  coast,  but  there  was  no  Massachusetts  then.  Massachusetts  is 
not  in  the  sea,  but  in  the  men  who  left  their  homes  beyond  the  sea 
and  bore  all  those  perils,  leaving  all  behind,  that  they  might  come  and 
settle  here  and  amid  conditions  of  freedom  and  liberty.  Hear  them," 
he  said,  "as  they  utter  those  words  so  pregnant  with  meaning,  'It  is 
not  with  us  as  with  men  whom  small  things  move.'  You  see  the 
rock,"  he  said,  "upon  which  they  stepped."  And  I  looked  upon  the 
rock,  and  I  said,  "Is  that  Massachusetts?"  And  he  said,  "No,  that  is 
not  Massachusetts.  Age  on  age  it  has  stood  there,  but  the  finger  of 
faith  that  rises  from  it  and  points  forth  to  the  heavens,  in  that  vou 
may  see  something  of  Massachusetts."  He  than  drew  my  attention  to 
the  beautiful  valley  that  lay  almost  at  our  feet.  I  saw  the  winding 
river;  I  saw  the  mountain  walls  whereon  God  had  hung  his  picture, 
and  I  said,  "Is  Massachusetts  in  this  magnificent  river?"  "No,"  he 
said,  "Massachusetts  is  not  in  the  river,  but  it  is  in  the  men  who 
have  chained  the  river  and  caused  it  to  carry  the  chariots  of  manu- 
facture for  them."  And  then  I  heard  a  terrible  sound  of  groaning 
of  men  and  the  sound  of  guns  and  the  clashing  of  steel,  and  I  said, 
"Is  that  Massachusetts?"  "No.  Massachusetts  is  not  in  the  battle, 
but  in  the  spirit  of  the  men  who,  on  this  land,  long  ago,  fought 
with  the  savage  for  a  foothold,  from  Concord  bridge  and  all  the  way 
down  until  they  stood  on  the  bridge  at  Santiago,  fighting  for  hu- 
manity and  humanit3''s  claims.  That  is  where  you  will  find  Mas- 
sachusetts." So  he  drew  my  attention  first  to  one  thing  and  then  to 
another,  and  finally  he  said,  "Beyond  ten  thousand  buildings,  all 
over  those  eight  thousand  square  miles,  that  is  sometimes  wrongfully 
called  Massachusetts."  And  I  said,  "Is  Massachusetts  in  the  build- 
ings?" "No;  but  see  what  is  in  the  buildings.  It  is  the  spirit  of 
men  and  women  who  are  teaching  the  deaf  and  dumb  to  hear  and 
to  speak  and  the  blind  to  see  and  the  lame  to  walk,  and  in  those 
other  institutions  where  the  flower  of  womanhood  of  the  land  is 
gathered,  where  the  young  men  of  the  land  are  gathered,  and  where 
now  they  are  placing  upon  memory's  walls  the  choicest  gems  of  science, 
literature  and  of  art.  Just  there,"  he  said,  "3'ou  will  see  something 
of  Massachusetts."  Then  I  looked  below,  and  I  saw  the  spires  still 
pointing  heavenward,  as  the  finger  of  faith  did  from  the  time  of  that 
first  settlement  on  Plymouth  bay.  And  then  there  came  a  tremen- 
dous crash.  It  seemed  as  though  the  very  heavens  wxre  opening, 
and  I  waked  up,  and  it  was  only  Thompson's  battery  firing  for  the 
salute  yesterday  morning.  [Laughter  and  applause.]  And  I  came 
out,  and  I  walked  up  and  down  these  streets,  and  I  saw  the  colors 
everywhere,  indicating  the  patriotism  of  this  people,  and  I  thought 
they  had  a  right  to  float  them  aloft,  for  they  had  done  much  to 
maintain  them  in  honor.  And  after  that  I  went  upon  your  hill- 
tops and  I  saw  the  institutions  that  crown  them.      I    saw   this  great 


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educational  institution  over  here  on  the  left.  I  saw  the  homes 
everywhere  situated  so  beautifully,  the  city  without  a  park,  and  yet 
the  entire  city  a  park,  and  it  seemed  to  me  as  though  my  question  had 
been  answered ;  as  though  I  saw  the  embodiment  of  Massachusetts 
right  here  in  Northampton,  this  American  Beauty  Rose  of  New  Eng- 
land cities,  that  seems  to  blossom  with  deeds  of  charity  and  benev- 
olence and  of  education  and  of  faith. 

So  may  it  be  now  that  we  may  have  cause  not  only  to  congratu- 
late you  on  the  past  and  to  express  our  congratulations  on  the  present, 
but  also  for  all  future  ages.     [Applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  A  book  has  been  named,  "When  Knighthood 
Was  in  Flower."  Knighthood  now  is  in  flower  and  in  full  bloom  right 
here  in  Northampton.  We  have  a  son  of  Northampton,  from  good  old 
stock  and  thoroughlv  educated,  an  expert  in  his  profession,  who  on  a 
great  occasion  showed,  what  all  his  friends  knew  before,  that  he  is  a 
great  man  —  Admiral  Cook,  whom  I  have  the  pleasure  to  introduce 
to    you. 


IRemarhs  ot  2l&miral  Cook 

FeUozv-To-K'iismcu,  FcUo-w-Toivusivomcn,  Former  Friends  and  Associates: 

It  is  good  to  be  with  you  todav  and  to  know  that,  after  an  absence 
of  forty  years  or  more,  I  am  still  welcome  in  my  old  home.     [Applause.] 

It  is  not  the  policy  of  a  demo- 
cratic people  to  maintain  large  and 
expensive  navies,  but  one  is  required 
which  may  be  relied  upon  at  all 
times  to  protect  your  interests.  The 
navy  should  not  be  behindhand  in 
material  nor  ships,  and  certainly 
not  in  a  personnel  thoroughly  trained 
to  use  that  material  to  the  best  ad- 
vantage when  rec|uired  to  do  so. 
The  navy  has  always  done  its  duty 
in  all  wars  and  maintained  the  respect 
and  the  confidence  of  the  people. 
I  may  not  now  dwell  upon  its  deeds. 
Every  schoolboy  knows  them  from 
his  histories,  and  will  emulate  them 
if  he  gets  a  chance. 

I  remember  in  my  boyhood  of 
hearing  a  story  often  told  of  two 
eccentric  characters  in  the  old  town. 

I    shall    name    them    for    convenience  Admiral     Francis     a.     Cook 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  305 


David  and  Isaac.  David  caught  a  cat  which  had  been  preving  upon  his 
chickens  and  tied  it  to  a  stake.  He  asked  from  Isaac  the  loan  of  his 
gun.  Isaac,  who  was  considerable  of  a  wag,  loaned  him  an  old  musket 
which  had  been  loaded  and  reloaded  by  mischievous  boys  nearlv  to  the 
muzzle.  David  had  the  cat  tied  to  a  stake  and  took  aim  and  fired. 
The  shot  scattered,  it  cut  the  string,  the  cat  ran  away,  but  David  turned 
a  double  somersault  to  the  rear.  [Laughter.]  He  turned  to  Isaac  and 
said,  "Did  I  kill  the  cat?"  "No,"  said  Isaac,  "there  goes  the  cat." 
"Well,"  said  David,  "but  she  would  have  been  dead  if  she  had  been  at 
this  end  of  the  gun."     [Laughter.] 

We  should  look  to  it  that  our  guns  should  be  loaded  with  the  best 
material,  and  when  we  find  a  cat  preying  upon  our  chickens  or  in  the 
henery,  that  we  may  not  merely  make  a  big  noise  and  blow  a  hole  in 
the  ground,  but  that  we  shall  destroy  the  enemy. 

May  our  youth  continue  to  be  interested  in  our  public  schools, 
that  every  star  and  every  stripe  of  the  old  flag  may  mean  freedom  and 
happiness  to  a  united  people,  that  in  their  manhood  thev  mav  ever  be 
ready  to  fight  for  and  to  defend  it,  and  in  old  age  to  honor  it  and  to 
respect  it.     [Applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  Before  Columbus  discovered  America  there  was 
chartered  in  England  the  old  town  of  Northampton. 

We  are  fortunate  in  having  a  goodly  representative  of  that  old 
town,  which,  calling  our  own  town  the  mother,  may  perhaps  very  well 
be  called  the  grandmother,  here  today,  and  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to 
introduce  to  you  Hon.  Samuel  S.  Campion  of  Northampton,  England. 

IRemarhs  ot  /iRr.  Gampion 

]'oiir  Honor,  Judge  Bassett,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  I'^riends: 

Before  I  came  here  I  visited  your  grand  miracle  of  nature,  Niagara. 
You  remember  that  above  both  the  American  and  the  Canadian  falls 
there  are  tremendous  rapids,  forces  of  nature  it  is  impossible  to  calcu- 
late, turbulent  waters  rushing,  racing,  conflicting  in  measureless  energv, 
until  at  last  they  pour  in  boiling  force  over  the  abyss  of  the  falls.  Mv 
mind,  during  my  presence  with  you,  has  been  very  much  in  the  seeth- 
ing state  of  those  rapids.  It  has  been  the  scene  of  a  conflict  of  con- 
verging and  various  thoughts  and  feelings  which  it  was  impossible  to 
express,  and  if  I  attempted  to  throw  upon  you  the  whole  force  of 
those  converging,  conflicting  and  tumultuous  energies,  I  am  afraid  the 
result  might  be  fatal.  At  any  rate  it  is  a  picture  of  mv  mind,  and  the 
difficulty  with  me  is  how  to  draw  from  the  tangled  tumult  of  thought 
two  or  three  consecutive  ideas  which  may  convey  in  some  sort  the 
feelings  which  animate  me  as  the  representative  of  your  mother  in  Old 
England. 


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I 


H   (_)   N    .       S  A    .M    U    K   L       S   .       L    A    M     I-    I    O    N 

Norlhampton,  England 


How  old  am  I  ?  It  is  said  that 
a  man  is  as  old  as  he  feels  and  a 
woman  as  old  as  she  looks. 
[Laughter.]  Well,  I  feel  something 
like  a  thousand  years  old.  I  am, 
in  fact,  the  heir  of  all  the  ages  at 
Northampton.  I  am  speaking 
from  the  mind  of  a  thousand 
years  and  more  to  you.  I  dare 
not  trust  mvself  to  fix  the  date, 
because  historic  records,  perhaps, 
will  not  carry  us  far  beyond  one 
thousand  or  twelve  hundred  years 
with  regard  to  the  age  of  your 
respected  mother.  I  am  looking 
upon  you  through  the  eyes  of  a 
thousand  years,  and  those  eyes  in 
looking  upon  you  cast  their  glances 
of  intellectual  life,  which  reveal  to 
you,  in  the  old  country,  in  the 
very  heart  of  the  Midlands  of  the 
Old  England,  ancient  Britons  with  their  equivalents  of  wigwams,  Saxons 
and  Danes,  contending  for  the  spoils,  in  the  early  settlement  of  your 
mother.  They  bring  you  a  picture  of  the  Norman  conquest,  when  Will- 
iam the  Conqueror  took  possession  of  ancient  Northampton,  for  it  was 
then  amongst  the  leading  towns  of  the  old  country,  as  it  is  today,  and, 
as  I  told  an  audience  of  your  school  children  yesterday,  he  did  what  all 
wise  men  do,  he  gave  that  treasure  into  the  hands  of  a  woman,  his 
niece  Judith.  He  married  her  as  a  matter  of  convenience  to  the  last 
Saxon  earl  of  Northampton.  She  was  the  first  Norman  countess  of 
Northampton,  and  Northampton  practically  owned  her  sway,  so  that  the 
town  paid  its  allegiance  to  one  of  the  mothers  of  our  race.  And  I  might, 
but  for  fear  of  wearying  you,  carry  you  down  the  avenues  of  history  and 
tell  you  how  Northampton  has  always  been  prominently  and  domi- 
nantly  associated  with  the  religious  ideas.  When  Judith's  husband 
was  put  out  of  the  way,  William  the  Conqueror  wished  her  to  marry 
one  of  his  Norman  earls.  But  he  was  a  gentleman  who,  though  pos- 
sessing a  brave  heart,  had  unequal  shoulders,  some  kind  of  deformity, 
and  the  lady  preferred  a  proper  man,  as  she  said,  to  one  who  was  not 
exactly  physically  an  Adonis  of  beauty,  and  William  the  Conqueror 
married  the  knight  to  the  daughter  of  Judith.  Her  daughter  was  named 
Maud. 

Now,  Simon  de  St.  Liz,  first  earl  of  Northampton,  was  a  brave 
crusader,  and  when  he  came  back  from  the  crusades  one  of  the  first 
tributes  he  paid  to  the  Providence  he  held  had  spared  his  life  through 
innumerable  dangers  was  to  build  one  of  the  architectural  and  historical 


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307 


Old  Church,  Northampton,  England 


I  N  r  E  R  I  o  R  (Chancel) 


memorials  of  the  past  in  the 
shape  of  the  round  church  built 
on  the  pattern  of  the  round 
church  which  was  erected  over 
the  reputed  tomb  of  our  Lord 
in  Jerusalem.  And  so  your  first 
Norman  earl  stamped  the  relig- 
ious idea  upon  your  mother  city 
by  building  upon  it  the  archi- 
tectural representation  of  the 
church  wdiich  stood  over  the 
tomb  of  our  Lord,  and  there 
the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sep- 
ulchre stands  today.  He  also 
established  a  monastery,  dedi- 
cated to  St.  Andrew,  as  a 
branch  of  the  Cluniac  Order  of 
Monks,  in  France.  Either  he 
or  his  son,  moie  probably  his 
son,  also  built  the  Norman 
church  of  St.  Peter,  in  the  town. 
Both  churches  are  something 
like  eight  hundred  years  old. 
Some  of  you  have  seen  them, 
and  I  hope  more  of  you  may 
live  to  see  them.  They  stand 
as    a     living   memento    of    the 


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religious  spirit  which  underlaid  the  early  settlement  of  your  mother 
city.  And  why  do  I  mention  that  circumstance  ?  Because,  as  I 
heard  from  our  good  friend,  Doctor  Rose,  on  Sunday,  and  as  I  have 
heard  through  innumerable  channels  since,  the  founders  of  this  settle- 
ment here  were  men  eminently  devout,  wedded  to  the  truth  as  they 
believed  it,  servants  of  the  Lord  and  citizens  of  the  kingdom  of  God, 
and  that  this  settlement  was  founded  upon  the  religious  idea ;  religion 
helped  to  found  it,  it  was  the  religious  spirit  which  lay  at  its  root. 
And  now  let  me  continue  that  line  of  thought  a  little  further. 

Old  Northampton  never  lost  the  thread  of  that  religious  spirit. 
When  John  Wycliffe,  the  Star  of  the  Reformation,  rose  in  his  beautiful 
brightness — and  the  star  is  still  shining  throughout  the  world — North- 
ampton was  the  home  of  the  Wycliffites,  and  John  Wycliffe's  ashes  were 
laid  to  rest  in  the  neighboring  church  at  Lutterworth,  only  to  be  dug  up 
later  bv  his  opponents,  and  those  ashes  were  cast  into  the  Avon — Shakes- 
peare's Avon  —  and  from  the  Avon  carried  to  the  Severn,  as  good  Thomas 
Fuller  savs,  one  of  our  Northampton  worthies,  and  from  the  Severn 
carried  into  the  Atlantic,  so  that  it  might  be  an  emblem  of  his  truth, 
and  by  the  Avon,  can  we  refuse  to  believe,  that  spirit  was  carried  across 
the  Atlantic  to  the  new  world  ?  And  then  the  Lollards  came,  and  North- 
ampton was  the  home  of  the  reforming  religionists  known  as  the  Lol- 
lards. And  then  Puritanism  arose,  and  Northampton  was  the  home  of 
Puritanism,  and  may  I  say,  just  to  make  a  little  quarrel  with  our  friend, 
President  Seelye,  in  his  magnificent  address  of  yesterday  paid  tribute 
to  the  elements  that  went  to  the  building  up  of  this  Northampton  of 
today,  but  he  omitted  one  thing.  He  omitted  to  refer  to  the  seed  corn 
to  which  we  owe  this  Northampton  of  today.  I  suggest  there  would 
have  been  no  Northampton  but  for  the  old  Puritans  who  came  out  from 
the  Old  Northampton,  and  in  your  new  settlement  here  your  settlers 
were  only  carrying  out  the  apostolic  succession  of  the  religious  idea, 
the  simple  faith,  sturdy  independence,  strong  conviction,  the  sturdy 
purpose,  the  inexhaustible  endurance,  which  they  had  learned  from 
their  Puritan  ancestors  in  Old  Northampton,  and  I  am  sure  President 
Seelye  will  be  the  first  to  recognize  the  philoso]:)hic  truth  of  historical 
continuity  and  will  be  ready  to  admit  that  New  Northampton  is  but  the 
child  of  Old  Northampton,  and  that  in  the  very  best  sense  of  the  word. 
[Applause.] 

Still  further,  and  I  trust  you  will  pardon  me;  I  trust  I  may  not  be 
wearisome  or  tedious,  but  I  want  you  to  know  something  of  my  own 
old  city,  your  mother,  that  perhaps  you  do  not  know  as  much  about 
as  it  is  desirable  you  should  know.  The  Puritans  in  those  days 
were  Cromwellians.  Cromwell  slept  in  an  old  house  still  standing  in 
Northampton,  the  night  before  Naseby,  and  we  lost  our  town  hall  by 
order  of  Charles  the  Second,  because  we  sheltered  the  Parliamentary 
party.  Naseby,  the  crucial  fight  of  the  war,  practically,  which  ended 
in  a  victory  by  the  Parliamentary  party,  was  fought  within  twelve  or 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  309 

fourteen  miles  of  our  Northampton  and  Northam])ton  men  fought  in 
that  fight.  Since  that  time  we  have  had  grand  men  of  the  same  noble 
spirit  of  whom  you  have  been  able  to  boast;  your  men,  our  children. 
There  was  Phihp  Doddridge,  whose  hymns  you  sing;  there  was  William 
Cowper,  who,  not  a  man  of  Northampton,  wrote  for  Northampton  and 
lived  within  a  dozen  miles;  there  was  John  Ryland,  another  notable, 
whose  hymns  I  have  no  doubt  are  to  be  found  in  your  hymn  book ;  there 
was  William  Carey,  the  shoemaker,  founder  of  modern  missions,  the 
man  who  made  shoes  and  preached,  just  as  your  early  pastors  worked 
upon  the  farm  or  handled  the  musket  and  preached.  And  so,  friends, 
you  see  that  there  is  a  very  real  tie  existing  between  Old  Northampton 
and  your  New  Northampton,  because  of  the  spirit  which  animated  the 
founders,  there  was  a  derivation  from  the  spirit  they  had  learned  from 
their  fathers  in  our  old  town.  And  I  shoukl  like  to  say  that  this  spirit 
is  still  maintained  in  your  mother  city.  Our  churches  and  chapels  will 
compare  with  the  churches  and  chapels  of  any  community  of  similar 
size  and  character  in  the  world.  Our  workers,  religious  workers,  are  as 
earnest  and  devoted  as  any,  and  at  our  last  religious  census  Northamp- 
ton stood  high  for  its  number  of  inhabitants  that  were  to  be  found 
vSunday  by  Sunday  paying  their  tribute,  singing  their  praises  and  offer- 
ing their  prayers  to  the  Almighty.  So  that  the  old  spirit  still  lives  in 
the  old  town  which  still  holds  aloft  the  banner  of  civic  and  religious 
liberty  which  is  your  boast  and  our  boast  and  which  makes  vou  and  us 
absolutelv  one. 

But  I  am.  coming  to  a  still  stronger  point  which  unites  us  and  makes 
us  one  and  which  I  trust  will  make  you  men  of  New  Northampton  proud 
of  your  mxOther  in  the  old  country.  I  am  speaking  from  the  heart  of 
England.  Northampton  is  in  the  very  heart,  the  center,  of  our  old 
country,  and  I  may  even  presume  to  say  that  Northampton  in  Old 
England  is  the  hub  of  England.  Well,  now,  let  us  see  in  this  regard. 
Well,  in  the  first  place,  I  hope  President  Seelye  will  give  me  plenary 
absolution  that  I  have  trespassed  upon  his  view  of  things.  I  now  have 
to  ask  His  Excellency  Governor  Bates  to  give  me  plenarv  absolution 
for  another  heresy  I  am  about  to  propound.  I  am  going  to  submit  it 
to  you  to  say  whether  that  heresy  does  not  represent  the  orthodox 
truth. 

Northampton  was  chartered  in  1533  and  in  1546  the  Mayor  of  Old 
Northampton,  your  mother  city,  was  named  Lawrence  Washington. 
[Applause.]  He  was  the  direct  ancestor  of  your  George  Washington. 
[Applause.]  Within  six  miles  there  is  a  little  parish  church  in  the 
parish  of  Great  Brington,  one  mile  from  Althorp,  the  seat  of  Earl  Spen- 
cer, the  possible  next  Premier  of  England, —  I  am  one  of  those  who 
hope  it  may  be.  Earl  Spencer  is  a  member  of  a  great  and  noble  family 
who  married  into  the  family  of  the  Washingtons.  The  Washingtons 
and  Spencers  intermarried,  and  in  that  church  there  lie  the  remains  of 
numbers  of  George  Washington's  ancestors,  other  Washingtons,  and  I 


310  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

want  to  say,  and  I  trust  you  will  pardon  the  egotism  of  the  suggestion, 
that  the  fact  of  a  Washington  having  been  Mayor  of  Old  Northampton, 
of  that  ancient  city,  fits  me  to  come  here  and  represent  the  old  town. 
There  is  another  reason  why  I  feel  there  is  a  peculiar  fitness  in  my 
representing  the  city,  for  the  dust  of  my  father  and  mother,  as  I  told 
one  of  your  audiences  the  other  day,  rests  in  the  graveyard  where  the 
remains  of  Washington's  ancestors  are  laid,  only  they  lie  in  the  church. 
They  were  persons  of  quality.  The  dust  of  my  father  and  mother  lies 
outside  the  church,  but  I  think  you  will  agree  with  me  that  in  either 
case  the  soil  is  equally  consecrated,  for  I  can  say: 

"My  boast  is  not,  that  I  deduce  iny  birth 
From  loins  enthroned,  and  rulers  of  the  earth; 
But  higher  far  my  proud  pretensions  rise  — - 
The  son  of  parents  pass'd  into  the  skies." 

That  is  William  Cowper.  [Applause.]  On  his  mother's  picture. 
But  I  share  the  glory  with  William  Cowper. 

On  that  Washington  tomb  there  is  a  brass  bearing  the  coat  of  arms 
of  the  Washingtons.  Some  of  you  know  what  that  coat  of  arms  is. 
There  are  the  stars  and  there  are  the  bars.  We  gave  you  the  stars  and 
stripes.  [Applause  and  laughter.]  I  decline  to  allow  you  the  monopoly 
of  them.  [Laughter.]  I  am  happy  under  the  banner  of  the  stars  and 
stripes.  I  am  equally  happy  under  the  old  union  jack.  [Laughter.] 
In  either  case  I  feel  they  both  belong  to  me  and  I  belong  to  them. 
[Applause.] 

Well,  you  see  we  gave  you  George  Washington,  and  now  comes  my 
point.  You  say  Boston  is  the  hub  of  the  universe.  Where  would 
Boston  have  been  if  it  had  not  been  for  George  Washington  ?  [Laugh- 
ter.] Well,  heaven  only  knows.  [Laughter.]  As  Northampton  gave 
you  George  Washington,  if  the  republic  was  founded  by  George  Wash- 
ington, that  is,  I  mean  in  a  metaphorical  sense,  he  was  your  great  leader, 
the  father  of  your  country — if  Northampton  gave  you  the  father  of 
your  country,  then  I  say  Boston  must  no  longer  usurp  the  position  it 
claims  of  being  the  hub  of  the  universe.  It  must  give  place  to  North- 
ampton, and  you  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  New  Northampton,  after  this 
do  not  play  second  fiddle  to  Boston,  because  it  is  a  family  affair.  [Ap- 
plause and  laughter.]  Washington  was  a  member  of  your  family,  not 
a  member  of  the  Boston  family.  It  is  the  family  of  Northampton  which 
has  given  you  and  me  the  father  of  our  country,  our  country,  and, 
therefore,  I  trust  the  syllogism  will  be  considered  complete,  the  argu- 
ment as  perfect,  Northampton,  the  hub  of  the  universe.     [Applause.] 

But  I  am  going  further.  [Laughter.]  I  have  not  done  with  our 
claims.  A  friend,  just  before  I  came  into  the  tent,  told  me  that  his 
ancestors  came  from  Badby.  Now,  I  know  Badby  well.  It  is  a  village 
which  had  a  Danish  origin.  The  very  "by"  at  the  end  of  the  "Badby" 
shows  it  had  a  Danish  origin.  All  the  names  in  the  old  country  ending 
in  "by"  may  be  confidently  traced  to  Danish  origin.     We  belong  to 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  311 

that  village  of  Badby.  It  is  within  about  ten  or  twelve  miles  of  North- 
ampton. And  you  had  a  man  named  Benjamin  Franklin,  whom  I 
have  always  called  the  Philosopher  of  the  Ainerican  Revolution.  He 
came,  or  his  father  and  mother  came,  or  his  ancestors,  and  I  almost 
think  it  was  his  father  and  mother,  from  the  village  of  Ecton,  five  miles 
from  Northampton.  That  is  comparatively  a  stone's  throw.  We  gave 
you  the  father  of  your  country,  we  gave  you  the  philosopher  of  your 
Revolution,  all  from  Northampton. 

Then  we  gave  you  General  Garfield,  the  man  whose  death  was  so 
much  lamented,  as  much  lamented  on  our  side  as  on  yours.  Nowhere 
was  it  that  tears,  sorrow  and  sympathy  were  given  more  freely  than  on 
our  side,  at  the  lamented  death  of  Garfield,  yours  and  ours,  for  these 
glories  never  fade. 

And  then  we  gave  you  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow,  gave  you 
not  only  founders,  philosophers  and  statesmen,  but  poets.  Henry 
Wadsworth  Longfellow,  on  his  mother's  side,  came  from  Long  Buckby, 
a  large  village  within  ten  miles  of  Northampton.  There  again  we  claim 
to  score.  I  tell  3'Ou  that  in  being  the  daughter  of  Old  Northampton 
you  men  and  w^omen  are  citizens  of  no  mean  city  and  have  reason  to  be 
proud  of  your  origin.  As  Wordsworth  sang,  we  that  remember  the  past 
can  sing  with  him  with  equal  fervor  and  sincerity  and  truth, 

"  In  our  halls  is  hung 
Armoury  of  the  invincible  knights  of  old : 

We  must  be  free  or  die,  who  speak  the  tongue 
That  Shakespeare  spake:  the  faith  and  morals  hold 
Which  Milton  held.      In  everything  we  are  sprung 

Of  earth's  first  blood,  have  titles  manifold." 

And  so  I  trust  that  the  ties  of  blood,  of  sympathy,  of  relationship, 
all  of  which  I  have  shown  you  exist  in  a  very  strong  degree,  in  a  notice- 
able degree,  as  I  hope,  may  grow  stronger  and  stronger  as  the  years  go 
by,  and  that  whilst  you  sing  the  praises  of  the  early  settlers,  the  brave 
adventures  of  devoted  men  of  progress,  apostles  of  civic  and  religious 
liberty,  you  will  cast  a  friendly  thought  and  look  across  the  ocean  to 
your  mother  city,  that  you  will  feel  an  aft'ection  for  her  that  may  not 
die. 

I  can  assure  you  of  this,  that  we  at  Northampton  shall  regard  this 
Celebration  with  the  greatest  interest.  You  may  depend  upon  it,  my 
tongue  and  my  pen  will  alike  take  care  to  be  exercised  in  conveying  to 
our  friends  there  what  a  happy  and  useful  time  we  have  had  together, 
and  how  much  I  myself  have  enjoyed  it.  But  I  feel  that  it  is  only 
typical  of  the  union  of  hearts  that  should  grow,  that  ought  to  grow, 
that  must  grow,  between  the  two  great  English-speaking  peoples  on 
either  side  of  the  Atlantic.  To  me  differences,  excepting  those  that  can 
be  adjusted  by  peaceable  means,  differences  that  might  be  carried  to 
arbitrament  of  the  sword,  would  be  nothing  less  than  fratricidal  crime. 
[Applause.]     For  I  am  appealing  to  you  on  the  ground  of  a  common 


312  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

ancestry,  on  the  ground  of  a  common  tongue,  on  the  ground  of  a  com- 
mon Hterature,  on  the  ground  of  a  common  rehgion,  to  stand  together, 
shoulder  to  shoulder,  heart  to  heart,  in  the  great  work  of  regenerating 
humanity,  in  reclaiming  the  world  from  the  ways  of  barbarism  and 
strife  into  the  peaceful  triumphs  of  industry  and  fraternity. 

I  remember  in  the  dark  days  of  1861  and  1865  how  as  a  youth  I 
watched  the  struggle  here  with  as  much — I  think  I  may  say,  I  hope 
without  presumption —  with  as  much  interest  and  sympathy  as  even  you 
yourselves  could  have  done,  and  I  remember  how  glad  we  were  when 
the  Union  was  preserved  and  this  great  nation,  saved  from  the  cata- 
clysm of  division,  was  at  last  brought  together,  united,  in  order  to 
march  forward  to  greater  triumphs  in  the  cause  of  progress  and  civiliza- 
tion, and  we  trust  that  that  union  inay  be  only  a  type  of  the  union 
that,  even  in  a  fuller  sense,  may  be  established  between  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  races  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic. 

I  remember  that  at  that  time  there  were  some  words  of  Longfellow 
that  appealed  to  me  very  strongly,  and  which  appeal  to  me  today,  which 
I  should  like  to  apply  to  the  unity  of  thought  and  spirit  which  shotild 
be  maintained  between  us : 

"Thou,  too,  sail  on,  O  Ship  of  State! 
Sail  on,  O  Union,  strong  and  great! 
Humanity  with  all  its  fears. 
With  all  the  hopes  of  future  years, 
Is  hanging  breathless  on  thv  fate! 


'■  'Tis  but  the  flapping  of  the  sail, 

And  not  a  rent  made  by  the  gale ! 

In  spite  of  rock  and  tempest's  roar, 

In  spite  of  false  lights  on  the  shore, 

Sail  on,  nor  fear  to  breast  the  sea! 

Our  hearts,  our  hopes,  are  all  with  thee. 

Our  hearts,  our  hopes,  our  prayers,  our  tears, 

Our  faith  triumphant  o'er  our  fears. 

Are  all  with  thee, —  are  all  with  thee!" 


It  is  my  pleasure  to  read  a  telegram  from  the  Mayor  of  Old  North- 
ampton. I  received  it,  I  may  say,  yesterday  morning,  but  it  was  thought 
better  that  it  should  be  reserved  for  this  occasion,  and  I  therefore  now 
read  it.      It  is  addressed  to  myself: 

"Alderman  Campion,  care  of  Mayor  of  Northampton,  Massachusetts.  Con- 
vey to  the  Mayor,  City  Council  and  the  inhabitants  heartiest  greetings  from  my- 
self, the  Council  and  Burgesses  of  Northampton,  England,  on  the  two  hundred 
and  fiftieth   anniversary  of  settlement  of  our  namesake  Ainerican  city." 

[Signed]  Lewis,  Mayor. 


Judge  Bassett.  Will  you  allow  the  continuity  of  this  vocal  music 
to  be  interrupted  by  a  piece  of  instrumental  music?  It  will  be  admissi- 
ble to  stand  during  the  music,  if  you  desire.     [Music  by  the  band.] 


NORTHAMPTON.  MASSACHUSETTS 


313 


Judge  Bassett.  Although  our  Northampton  is  so  young  compara- 
tively, she  is  the  mother  of  three  fine  daughters,  Westhampton,  South- 
ampton, and  Eastham])ton.  From  the  youngest  of  them  comes  to  us 
Dr.  Joseph  H.  Sawyer,  principal  of  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton, 
who  will  now  be  heard  b^'  vou. 


Ipvinctpal  Saunter's  IRemarks 

Mr.  (.'Jiairuuvi,  His  Honor  the  Mayor,  Friends  and  Neighbors: 

It  is  certainly  very  kind  and  yery  considerate  in  you,  after  hearing 
so  much  about  Northampton,  to  be  willing  to  sit  patiently  and  hear 
anything  about  people  who  are  called  by  another  name  than  North- 
ampton. 

As  your  Toastmaster  has  said, 
there  are  three  of  these  younger 
Hamptons.  They  form  a  trio  of 
daughters  of  whom  the  mother  mav 
well  be  proud.  You  have  asked  a 
representative  from  the  youngest  of 
the  three  to  speak  for  all.  I  should 
be  remiss,  quite  forgetful  of  what  I 
know  my  neighbors  in  these  towns 
expect  of  me,  cjuite  regardless  of  m\' 
own  feeling,  if  I  did  not  here  and 
now,  in  their  behalf,  convey  to  you 
and  to  those  who  have  acted  in  your 
stead,  our  grateful  recognition  of  the 
consideration  that  vou  have  shown 
to  us.  We  thank  you  for  the  cordial 
invitation  to  participate  in  the  fes- 
tivities of  this  occasion.  We  thank 
you  for  including  us  in  the  home 
circle.  We  feel  at  home.  Although 
separated  for  a  term  of  years,  we  still 
feel  in  a  way  that  we  are  coming 
home  when  we  come  here. 

It  is  more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  since  Southampton  was 
incorporated ;  more  than  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  years  since  West- 
hampton separated  from  Northampton.  It  is  nearly  one  hundred  and 
twenty  years  since  Easthampton  called  its  first  pastor  and  built  its 
town-house.  Those  of  us  now  here  had  no  part  in  that  separation,  but 
the  record  that  has  been  left  us  is  sufheient  to  show  us  that  the  separa- 
tion did  not  come  because  of  jealousy.  It  was  done  with  no  bitter 
feeling.  There  has  been  no  cause,  no  good  reason,  for  bitterness  since 
then.     The  separation  in  each  instance  came  because  the  convenience 


Prixcip.al  Joseph   H.  Sawveh 


314  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

of  the  communities  chiefly  interested  would  be  thereby  most  perfectly 
served. 

And  yet  it  ought  to  be  said  here  today  that  these  towns  did  not 
separate  from  Northampton  simply  for  that  reason.  They  went  from 
Northampton  for  Northampton's  good.  The  proof  of  that  is  to  be  found 
in  that  spurious  logic  which  consists  in  a  supposition  contrary  to  the 
fact.  Imagine,  if  it  is  possible  for  you,  now  so  weary,  to  imagine  any- 
thing, imagine  what  would  be  the  condition  today  if  Northampton  had 
these  three  towns  to  care  for  and  their  pleasure  to  consult  in  addition 
to  West  Farms,  Loudvihe,  Smith's  Ferry,  Leeds  and  Florence.  In 
that  case  I  think  the  higher  critic,  if  not  the  philosophic  historian, 
would  find  in  this  municipality  the  origin  of  that  classic  rhyme  about 
the  careworn  old  mother  who  lived  in  a  shoe. 

Northampton,  in  deed  if  not  in  word,  I  think,  has  recognized  this 
service  which  these  towns  rendered  by  going  away.  She  has  seen  that 
they  were  always  well  supplied  with  representatives  in  the  Great  and 
General  Court  and  with  an  abundance  of  occupants  of  all  kinds  of  offices, 
and  whenever  the  suggestion  has  come  from  one  of  those  communities 
that  this  was  not  quite  fair  to  lay  so  much  upon  the  mother  and  they 
were  ready  to  assume  some  of  the  responsibilities  of  the  case,  the  assur- 
ance has  always  come  back  that  we  could  still  return  to  our  farms  and 
our  merchandise,  for  over  here  there  was  a  long  waiting  list.     [Laughter.] 

One  hundred  and  fifty  years  and  more  since  these  separations 
began.  That  has  been  time  for  the  writing  of  much  history.  This 
municipality  in  that  time  has  grown  to  a  beautiful,  prosperous  and 
well-ordered  city.  The  other  Hamptons  remain  towns.  There  the 
original  New  England  democracy  may  be  found  in  its  proper  form  and 
untainted  purity.  There  is  not  only  government  of  the  people  and 
for  the  people,  but  literally  and  truly  government  by  the  people. 

A  change  has  come  over  the  face  of  the  ground  that  these  towns 
represent  upon  the  map.  They  have  grown,  taken  as  a  whole,  for  they 
have  grown  in  population  and  have  increased  in  wealth.  There  have  been 
changes  of  localities,  there  has  been  shifting  of  centers,  but  taken  as  a 
whole  they  are  more  populous  and  more  prosperous  today  than  in  that 
earlier  time.  The  farms  are  as  well  cared  for  on  the  whole.  Certainly 
the  merchandise,  the  conveniences,  offered  in  the  shops,  are  as  varied 
and  as  complete  in  satisfying  the  wants  of  the  community  as  were  those 
of  a  former  time.  In  all  these  ways  these  townships  have  held  their 
own.     They  are  not  declining.     They  are  not  decayed  towns. 

But  there  has  another  change  come  which  makes  us  all  serious. 
The  towns  of  Westhampton  and  Southampton  are  today,  as  they  were 
one  hundred  years  ago,  not  so  fully  as  one  hundred  years  ago,  but  still 
in  large  measure,  homogeneous.  New  names  appear  upon  the  rolls  of 
the  assessors,  and  names  other  than  those  of  the  original  New  England 
inhabitants  may  be  found  in  those  farmsteads.  One  hundred  years 
ago  we  might  say  that  Easthampton  was  homogeneous.     Fifty  years  ago 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  315 

it  was  vastly  more  so  than  today,  but  still  Westhampton  and  South- 
ampton have  remained  essentially  agricultural,  and  the  artisans  there 
found  are  such  as  are  necessary  for  the  convenient  service  of  such  com- 
munities. Easthampton,  on  the  other  hand,  has  developed  manufac- 
turing interests  of  some  importance.  This  has  brought  about  a  change 
in  the  character  of  the  population.  Today  representatives  of  twelve 
nationalities  have  homes  in  Easthampton,  and  if  w^e  include  those  who 
are  there  for  temporary  residence,  we  could  increase  that  number  to 
fifteen.  Now,  I  need  not  enlarge  upon  the  seriousness  of  that  situation. 
In  epitome  it  is  the  problem  which  confronts  the  nation,  the  assimila- 
tion into  the  body  politic  of  such  increasing  additions  of  those  who 
come  to  us  with  ideals  of  home  and  of  country  differing  in  many  respects 
from  those  which  we  have  held  in  honor  here.  We  face  it  with  no  over- 
weening confidence,  certainly  with  no  boasting.  And  yet  we  are  re- 
solved to  solve  it  satisfactorily,  for  questions  not  settled  rightly  never 
give  a  community  peace.  Our  reliance  is  the  reliance  of  our  fathers. 
We  know  no  modern  method  for  meeting  this  case,  although  the  prob- 
lem is  a  modern  one.  Our  reliance  is  on  the  school  and  the  church,  with 
all  that  those  two  institutions  represent.  We  do  not  desire,  we  do  not 
seek,  citizenship  that  is  clannish  and  devoid  of  conscience,  and  so,  while 
through  our  schools  we  seek  to  secure  a  community  speaking  a  common 
language  and  having  common  ideals  of  home  and  country,  we  seek 
through  our  churches  allegiance  to  the  same  higher  law  and  recognition 
of  the  same  God.  The  people  in  those  towns,  in  the  main,  are  a  church- 
going  people.  The  institutions  and  the  ordinances  of  the  house  of 
God  they  revere,  its  lessons  they  will  heed.  And  so  it  is  our  hope, 
our  faith,  that  we  shall  see  there,  as  in  other  parts  of  this  fair  land  of 
ours,  the  citizenship  homogeneous  at  least  in  this,  that  all  shall  recog- 
nize that  liberty  under  law  is  the  only  liberty  worth  having  [applause] ; 
and  a  community  and  neighborhood  homogeneous  at  least  in  this,  that 
each  shall  find  the  security  of  his  own  rights  in  the  recognition  of  the 
rights  of  others. 

This  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  closes  a  chapter  of  history. 
We  shall  open  the  next,  satisfied  with  the  past  and  full  of  courage  for 
the  future.     [Applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  The  last  speaker  has  mentioned  Smith's  Ferry, 
and  we  may  be  thankful  for  that  institution,  for  it  caused  a  good  woman 
who  was  mother  of  a  numerous  family  to  select  Northampton  as  a  place 
of  residence.  She  said  that  whereas  formerly  when  they  wanted  to  get 
from  Brooklyn  to  New  York  they  went  down  to  the  shore  and  took 
down  a  tin  horn  from  a  tree  and  blew  it,  and  the  ferryman  swung  his 
boat  over  leisurely  and  took  the  passengers  across;  now  all  that  had 
given  place  to  the  Brookl3^n  bridge,  which  she  did  not  like.  But  up  in 
Northampton  you  may  swing  leisurely  over  the  Connecticut  on  a  wire 


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ferry  and  see  a  beautiful  landscape  before  you  and  all  around  you,  and 
Northampton  is  a  place  where  no  one  is  lost  to  help  make  a  throng. 
Naturally  we  are  thankful  for  Smith's  Ferrv. 

Doctor  Henry  T.  Rose,  who  will  now  address  you,  pastor  of  the 
First  church,  which  has  been  in  existence  about  as  long  as  the  town, 
and  who  is  a  successor  of  Jonathan  Edwards,  needs  no  introduction 
here. 

IRemarhs  of  IRev.  Dr.  IRosc 

Air.   Chaifman,   Master  of  the  Feast,   Friends   and  Citizens  of   Western 
Massaehusetts: 

I  infer  from  Judge  Bassett's  suggestions  that  I  have  been  in  exist- 
ence about  as  long  as  the  town.  It  is  a  libel  on  my  grav  hairs.  In 
point  of  fact,  when  you  celebrate  your  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anni- 
versary you  have  to  go  outside  and  get  us  boys  to  come  inside  here  and 

talk  to  you.  There  has  not  a  single 
man  spoken  to  you  here  today  who 
was  born  of  one  of  the  first  settlers, 
and  we  all  come  in  from  the  outside 
to  help  you  celebrate  your  glorious 
anniversary,  and  we  do  it  with  full 
hearts. 

Reference  has  been  made  by  our 
honored  guest  from  Northampton, 
England,  to  a  hero  known  in  history 
as  William  the  Conqueror — if  it  was 
not  Lieut.  William  Clark,  it  was  Will- 
iam the  Conqueror.  I  am  glad  he 
did  not  tell  us  all  he  knew  about  him, 
for  if  he  had  he  would  have  stolen 
the  only  story  I  have. 

It  is  said  that  when  William  the 
Conqueror  landed,  as  he  stepped 
from  the  boat  by  which  he  was  car- 
ried from  his  ship,  his  heel  caught  in 
the  rim  of  the  boat  and  he  fell  into 
the  edge  of  the  water,  and  the  soldiers 
and  seamen  were  frightened,  for  it  was  an  ill  omen.  But  he  laid  hold 
upon  the  dripping  sands  and  held  them  high  and  said,  "So  by  the 
splendor  of  God  do  I  take  possession  of  the  soil  of  England  with  both 
my  hands."  So  by  the  splendor  of  God  do  we  take  possession  of  this 
town  of  Northampton. 

The  blue  and  the  gray  are  harmonized  at  length  and  sweet  peace 
unites  them.  Now  today  the  blue  and  the  red  are  one,  and  tonight  we 
are  to  be  the  guests  of  that  gracious  circle,  the  Daughters  of  the  Ameri- 
can  Revolution,  closing  under  the  sweetest  auspices   a  Celebration  of 


Rev.  Henry  T.  Rose,  D  D. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  317 


wonderful  felicity  and  success.  I  asked  one  of  the  queenly  women 
that  belong  to  that  lovely  throng  what  D.  A.  R.  stood  for,  and  she  told 
me  it  stood  for  "Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution."  "Yes,"  I 
said,  "but  the  initials  might  be  interpreted  to  mean  'Deep  Ancestral 
Resentment.'"  But  today  I  know  what  it  stands  for,  namely  this  — 
the  "Development  of  Affectionate  Relations."     [Applause.] 

As  I  stand  here  I  am  thinking  almost  all  the  time  of  that  great 
address  that  was  delivered  in  the  First  church  on  the  two  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the  town.  His  Excellency  just  now 
remarked  that  everything  had  been  said  by  former  speakers,  but  if  you 
will  permit  me  to  say  so,  nothing  has  been  said  yet  about  all  our  story. 
A  great  deal  remains  to  tell,  and  I  wish  he  had  told  more  of  it,  although 
what  he  said  was  inimitable.  When  the  Rev.  Dr.  Allen,  of  blessed 
memory,  who  is  now  with  God,  delivered  that  address,  he  lamented  the 
limits  assigned  to  him  in  time,  for  the  committee  had  allotted  him  only 
two  hours,  and  he  had  overrun  the  time  a  little. 

I  want  to  refer  once  more,  with  your  kind  permission,  to  Dr.  Seelye's 
admirable  summary  of  what  has  come  to  the  town  in  the  way  of  gifts 
and  endowments.  One  thing  there  was  not  time  to  mention,  or  the 
Doctor,  whose  memory  is  inerrent,  would  have  spoken  of  it,  the  first  of 
all  our  benefactions,  the  fund  left  by  Major  Hawley,  also  of  blessed 
memory,  for  the  cause  of  education  in  Northampton.  He  provided  for 
the  continuance  of  the  grammar  school  as  long  as  the  township  should 
endure,  and  he  directed  that  no  part  of  his  bequest  should  be  aUenated 
to  any  other  purpose,  strongly  recommending  to  the  people  —  his  will  is 
down  here  in  the  court-house,  anybody  can  look  at  it,  a  precious  docu- 
ment— that  the  schools  be  managed  with  fairness  and  liberality,  and 
that  men  of  learning  and  ability  be  employed  to  teach.  He  made  these 
provisions  because  he  had  the  greatest  affection  for  the  lads  of  North- 
ampton ,  and  for  obligation  to  his  country  and  the  town  that  had  honored 
him  so  highly.  When  the  new  Hawley  grammar  school  is  Vjuilt  we  want 
so  much  of  that  will  as  seems  fitting  inscribed  in  some  permanent  form 
in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the  entrance  to  that  monumental  building. 
Come  again,  then,  friends,  and  help  us  consecrate  that  monument  to  the 
memory  of  Major  Joseph  Hawley. 

The  astonishing  liberality  of  this  people,  their  charity  and  their 
self-control,  have  been  celebrated  here  this  afternoon.  In  all  its  history 
this  town  has  been  famous  for  the  generosity  of  its  public  actions  and 
for  the  tolerance  of  its  spirit.  We  have  had  divisions,  but,  as  was  said, 
we  had  no  witchcraft  prosecutions.  We  have  had  schism,  and  we 
have  parted  with  tears  and  sadness  from  dear  friends,  yet  even  in  those 
hot  days  when  England  and  America  were  at  strife,  although  there 
were  many  men  here  who  sympathized  with  the  mother  country,  they 
were  permitted  to  enjoy  their  principles  pretty  much  to  themselves. 
At  that  time  the  town  was  engaged  in  building  a  new  jail.  The  very 
first  time  it  was  used  some  of  the  foremost  citizens  —  Major  Stoddard 


318  •  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

was  one  of  them — were  incarcerated  and  spent  the  night  in  it  on 
account  of  their  tory  principles.  And  these  cHstinguished  prisoners 
sent  out  for  the  sheriff — I  am  sorry  to  say  he  is  not  with  us  today, 
but  representatives  succeeding  him  in  that  high  office  in  this  and  other 
counties  are  here  present — and  the  sheriff  took  in  something  to  drink, 
and  they  had  a  glorious  night,  and  the  next  morning  the  men  were 
discharged  and  permitted  afterwards  to  exercise  their  right  to  private 
judgment  and  sympathize  with  King  George  or  Brother  Jonathan  to 
the  end  of  their  days.  This  is  as  near  as  the  patriots  came  to  per- 
secution. 

Is  there  nobler  praise  than  to  call  this  a  town  renowned  for  liberty, 
education,  enlightenment  and  religion?  May  its  star  never  be  dimmed, 
but  grow  the  brighter  in  our  heavens  to  the  end  of  time,  and  may  we 
all  be  worthy  of  citizenship  in  so  fair  a  place.     [Applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  It  must  be  true  that  no  speaker  born  in  North- 
ampton has  been  heard  here  today,  because  a  truthful  gentleman  has 
said  so.  I  believe  it  is  said  that  poets  are  born  and  not  made,  and  it 
comes  about  by  a  kind  of  poetic  license,  it  seems,  that  the  hero  is  made 
and  not  born,  for  Admiral  Cook,  who  has  spoken,  says  that  he  first  saw 
the  light  in  Northampton. 

Dr.  Rose.  It  is  the  everlasting  glory  of  Northampton  that  Admi- 
ral Cook  first  saw  the  light  here.  May  he  long  see  the  light  among  us ! 
But  what  I  had  in  mind  was  that  nobody  who  has  spoken  for  the  town  is 
descended  from  the  first  settlers;  of  that  I  am  quite  sure. 

Judge  Bassett.  The  next  gentleman  you  will  listen  to  is  allied 
to  a  good  old  Northampton  family  and  is,  I  believe,  the  grand-nephew 
of  Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates,  who  was  United  States  senator  from  North- 
ampton. It  was  one  of  the  great  privileges  a  few  years  ago  to  hear  his 
honored  and  lamented  father  here,  and  it  is  also  a  privilege  for  North- 
ampton people  to  hear  our  own  Congressman,  the  Honorable  Frederick 
H.  Gillett. 

/Iftr.  (Sfllett's  IRemarfts 

My  Friends: 

I  feel  that  the  patience  and  politeness  with  which  you  have  so  long 
sat  in  these  hard  seats  and  listened  prove  conclusively  that  you  are  true 
and  genuine  descendants  of  those  stern  Puritans  who  always  thought 
the  minister  was  trifling  with  them  if  he  preached  for  less  than  two 
hours  [laughter],  but  I  shall  endeavor  to  reward  your  patience  by  modern 
brevity. 

I  feel  that  I  am  very  fortunate  today,  as  was  alluded  to  by  the  chair- 
man, in  that  I  feel  the  interest  in  Northampton  and  the  admiration  and 


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Hon.     Frederick     H.     Gillett 


pride  not  simply  which  I  sup- 
pose every  representative  does 
for  every  town  and  city  which 
has  been  kind  enough,  and  I  sup- 
pose he  thinks  intelhgent  enough, 
to  select  him  [laughter],  but  I 
have  also  the  personal  interest  in 
it  that  I  was  brought  up  and  edu- 
cated to  feel  that  Northampton 
was  one  of  my  ancestral  homes. 
My  father's  father  died  when  he 
was  a  small  boy  and  Mr.  Bates 
took  the  place  of  a  father  to  him. 
It  was  in  his  office  that  he  studied 
law  here.  It  was  in  his  home 
that  he  lived,  and  when  he  began 
to  practice  for  himself  he  went  to 
his  kinsman,  to  William  G.  Bates 
of  Westfield,  and  he  always 
brought  me  up  to  look  back  to 
Northampton  as  his  original  fam- 
ily seat.  And  so  I  have  always 
considered  that  I,  too,  had  an 
interest  in  her  and  that  I  was  a  descendant  of  Northampton. 

I  was  interested  to  notice  that  Mr.  Bates,  who  represented  this 
district  for  many  years  in  Congress,  as  well  as  the  United  States  Senate, 
represented  very  much  the  same  district  that  I  do.  It  was  then  called 
the  Hampden  district,  and  it  consisted  of  Hampden  county,  the  entire 
Hampden  county  and  a  large  part  of  Hampshire  county.  I  was  also 
interested  to  notice  that  at  the  same  time  that  my  great  uncle  on  my 
father's  side  represented  this  Hampden  district,  my  mother's  uncle 
represented  the  Berkshire  district,  so  that  you  see  I  have  a  sort  of 
ancestral  and  inherited  tendency  towards  Congress  [laughter  and  ap- 
plause], and  I  believe  a  man  is  not  blamed  so  much  for  the  viciousness 
which  he  inherits  as  for  that  which  he  has  acquired.  So  I  trust  I  shall 
be  pardoned. 

At  that  time,  although  in  the  early  thirties  it  was  that  Mr.  Bates 
was  congressman  here,  Massachusetts  had  thirteen  representatives,  just 
as  she  has  today,  but  those  thirteen  represented  only  forty  thousand 
people,  instead  of  two  hundred  thousand,  as  it  exists  today.  That, 
of  course,  is  but  one  statement  of  the  great  change  in  numbers  that 
has  been  going  on.  But  after  all,  we  know  that  size  is  not  all  that 
makes  a  man  or  that  makes  a  city. 

Perhaps  some  of  you  will  remember  the  story  of  Sheridan,  who, 
when  a  rich  London  merchant  once  invited  him  to  drink  a  glass  of  very 
old  and  rare  wine,  accepted  gladly,  for  he  had  rather  hberal  tastes  in 


320  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


that  direction,  and  as  the  merchant  was  uncorking  the  bottle,  covered 
with  the  dust  of  ages,  and  expatiating  upon  the  wonderful  age  of  this 
wine  and  its  rare  qualities,  and  then  poured  it  hito  a  very  rare,  costly 
and  dainty  glass,  a  glass  of  it,  and  handed  it  to  Sheridan,  who,  I  sus- 
pect, cared  rather  more  for  the  size  than  the  quality  of  his  wine,  looked 
at  the  glass  a  moment  and  said,  "I  have  no  doubt  the  wine  is  as  old 
and  as  rare  as  you  say,  but  isn't  it  rather  small  for  its  age?"  I  am 
sure  we  will  have  to  accept  the  criticism,  if  it  be  one,  but  after  all  we 
can  remember,  with  Ben  Jonson,  that 

"It  is  not  growing  like  a  tree 
In  bull:  doth  make  man  better  be. 
In  small  proportions  we  just  beauties  see, 
And  in  small  measure  man  may  perfect  be." 

I  think  that  is  true.  I  know  it  is  certainly  true  of  cities.  We  can 
l)ut  appreciate  the  almost  invariable  rule  that  as  a  citv  grows  n  size, 
it  departs  from  perfection.  Certainly  today  Northampton,  with  its 
beautv  of  scenery,  its  perfection  of  location,  its  refinement  and  cultiva- 
tion of  citizenship,  and  its  excellent  government,  illustrates  this  line, 
"In  small  proportions  we  just  beauties  see."  It  is  only  true  of  cities 
that  in  small  measure  we  may  perfect  be,  but  certainly  your  city  may 
stand  as  a  pattern  and  example  to  all. 

But  these  Western  cities,  which  have  grown  so  fast  and  which  illus- 
trate, of  course,  the  progress  of  the  age,  it  is  really  to  them,  I  fancy, 
that  the  stern  old  ancestors  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  ,if  they 
should  come  back,  would  look  with  the  greatest  surprise.  We,  of 
course,  have  been  thinking  for  the  last  few  days  what  would  they  say 
if  they  could  revisit  the  earth,  and  I  am  sure  the  one  thought  we  have  is 
the  astonishment  and  surprise  that  they  would  feel  in  seeing  this  old 
citv.  But,  after  all,  I  fancy  that  it  is  the  nation  that  would  surprise 
them  most,  and  I  suppose  it  was  rather  on  that  line  that  I  was  ex- 
pected to  speak.  It  is  not  simply  the  power  which  we  show  here  in  the 
city  over  all  kinds  of  material  agencies,  it  is  not  the  great  development 
of  steam  and  electricity  and  so  forth,  which  were  practically  unknown 
to  them,  which  would  most  excite  their  astonishment,  because,  after  all, 
they  were  stern  and  serious  men,  and  the  one  question  they  would  ask 
would  be,  "What  is  all  this  material  growth?  How  has  it  affected  the 
men  of  today?  Are  the  thoughts  and  principles  which  we  came  here 
to  establish  developed,  or  have  they,  in  this  wonderful  material  change, 
decayed  and  fallen  away?"  This  is  what  they  would  ask,  for,  after  all, 
it  was  their  serious,  determined,  grim  spirit  of  self-reliance  which  ac- 
complished, achieved  the  nation  of  today.  I  am  afraid  if  we  saw  them 
today  we  should  think  they  were  not  in  every  way  agreeable  associates. 
I-  confess  I  have  always  remembered  with  great  amusement  that  toast 
which  Mr.  Choate  once  gave  to  the  Pilgrim  Mothers.  He  said,  "The 
Pilgrim  Mothers,  more  worth v  of  our  admiration  than  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers,  for  they  not  only  endured  all  the  hardships  which  the  Pilgrim 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  321 

Fathers  did,  but  they  had  to  endure,  in  addition,  the  Pilgrim  Fathers 
themselves."  [Laughter  and  applause.]  And  I  suspect  that  those 
grim  old  Pilgrim  Fathers  had  some  qualities  which  we  would  hardly 
think  admirable.  But  after  all  they  had  the  basic  qualities  which  today 
really  have  made  our  nation.  The  one  thing  which  they  would  see  today 
with  pride  and  with  satisfaction  I  suspect  is  that,  go  where  they  may 
over  all  this  country,  they  would  find  embodied  in  the  constitution  of 
every  state  the  principle  which  drove  them  from  home,  which  made 
them  leave  comfort,  security  and  luxury,  the  principle  of  the  right  to 
worship  God  as  they  pleased  and  to  govern  themselves.  [Applause.] 
That  is  still  embodied  in  our  national  constitution  and  in  all  our  states, 
and  as  they  observed  that,  as  they  saw  that  this  whole  nation  was  still 
devoted  to  their  basal  principles,  I  think  they  would  take  more  satis- 
faction than  in  all  the  triumphs  over  space  and  matter  we  have  achieved. 
And  after  all  that  is  the  only  power  that  we  have  accomplished;  the  only 
miracle,  I  think,  of  our  nation  is  that  this  principle,  planted  here  by 
these  few  immigrants  from  England,  that  this  one  principle  has  pervaded 
all  the  men  that  have  come  in  here  from  other  nations ;  it  has  brought 
them  together,  it  has  made  them  as  homogeneous  as  they  are,  and, 
although  differing  in  almost  every  respect,  we  still  stand  firm  and  true 
by  that  one  principle  which  they  recognized  as  fundamental  and  which 
we  still  recognize  as  fundamental,  and  as  we  look  back  to  them  I  think 
we  may  still  remember  that  it  is  their  principle  that  has  enabled  us  to 
achieve  all  our  progress;  it  is  their  principle  that  unites  this  nation, 
and  we  may  still  turn  back  to  them  and  trust  that  we  may  still  hold 
fast  to  their  principle  and  that  we  may  imitate  their  stern  and  unbend- 
ing and  determined  plan  that  they  would  yield  nothing  for  the  rights 
of  self-government.     [Applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  Northampton  was  a  fine  old  town  when  Smith 
College  was  located  here,  but  it  cannot  be  denied  that  Northampton 
owes  much  to  the  coming  of  Smith  College,  with  its  faculty  of  cultured 
gentlemen  and  ladies  and  with  its  great  and  splendid  success.  But 
Smith  College  owes  something  to  its  environment,  and  each  may  felici- 
tate the  other.  No  town  and  gown  here.  There  is  no  conflict.  A 
member  of  the  faculty  has  just  been  elected  by  one  of  the  great  political 
parties  delegate  to  its  national  convention  to  nominate  a  candidate  for 
President  of  the  United  States.  The  gentlemen  of  the  faculty  are  citi- 
zens of  Northampton  as  well.  Much  is  owed  by  the  college,  and  much 
is  owed  by  Northampton  to  the  only  and  distinguished  president  of  the 
college,  who,  by  his  ability  as  a  leading  educator  and  as  a  business  man 
has  contributed  so  largely  to  this  result.  You  will  hear,  as  you  are 
always  delighted  to  hear,  Dr.  L.  Clark  Seelye,  the  president  of  the 
college.     [Applause.] 


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Mr 


IPresi^ent  Sedge's  IRemarhs 

Toastmastcr,  Your  Excellency  the  Governor,  Your  Honor  the  Mayor, 
I''ellou'-(  'itirjcns  of  Northampton: 

If  I  failed  to  recognize  in  the  brief  address  which  I  had  the  honor 
of  making  yesterday  the  older  city  to  which  our  lineage  and  name  have 
been  traced,  and  thus  justly  incurred  the  criticism  which  has  been  ex- 
pressed by  our  distinguished  relative  from  England,  in  not  alluding  as 

I  ought  to  have  done  to  our  much- 
respected  civic  grandmother,  I  can 
only  say  in  apology  for  the  apparent 
neglect  that  it  seemed  about  as  much 
as  I  had  strength  to  accomplish,  or 
the  audience  patience  to  listen  to,  to 
go  over  the  record  of  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years,  without  attempting 
the  record  of  a  thousand  vears  which 
our  guest  from  the  mother  country 
says  he  represents  today.  [Laughter 
and  applause.] 

Let  me,  however,  strive  to  make 
amends  for  my  apparent  neglect 
in  giving  him  another  item  to  take 
back  to  our  grandmother  and  to  add 
to  her  luster.  He  has  recounted  how 
much  we  are  indebted  to  her,  how 
she  is  the  hub  of  England  and  ought, 
therefore,  to  be  the  hub  of  America, 
and  he  has  referred  to  a  distinguished 
woman,  the  niece  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  to  whom  our  grandmother  owed  so  much  of  her  glory  and 
accomplishments.  But  the  gentleman  failed  to  recognize  how  much 
the  respect  for  woman  due  to  that  distinguished  ancestress  runs  in  our 
blood  [laughter]  so  that  here  in  Northampton  has  been  founded  one  of 
the  greatest  institutions  for  the  education  of  women  in  the  world. 
[Applause.]  Let  him  carry  back  to  our  grandmother  that  tribute  to 
her  primitive  respect  for  womanhood. 

I  have  read  somewhere,  I  cannot  now  say  where,  that  in  one  of  our 
early  set'lements — I  think  it  was  in  Virginia — a  petition  was  made  to 
the  legislature  that  grants  of  land  should  be  given  to  the  wives  as  well 
as  to  the  planters,  for  they  said,  "In  a  new  plantation  it  is  not  known 
whether  man  or  woman  is  the  more  necessary."  [Laughter.]  In  the 
spirit  of  that  petition  Smith  College  was  founded,  because  in  a  new  or 
old  plantation  it  is  not  known  whether  the  intelligence  of  a  man  or  of  a 
woman  is  the  more  necessary.  Sophia  Smith  at  least  believed  that  the 
intelligence  of  a  woman  was  as  well  worth  cultivating  as  the  intelligence 


L.  Clark  Shelve,  LL.D. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  323 

of  a  man  [Applause];  that  woman  was  quite  as  useful,  quite  as  impor- 
tant, in  any  community  as  a  man.  She  had  much  to  justify  her  belie. 
in  the  history  of  our  city. 

We  have  heard  a  good  deal  during  the  past  few  weeks  of  our  debt 
to  Jonathan  Edwards.  There  was  a  person  in  Northampton  who  is 
not  so  celebrated  in  history  or  in  poetry,  to  whom  this  city  and  we,  its 
inhabitants  I  venture  to  say,  owe  more  than  to  Jonathan  Edwards,  for 
where  would  Jonathan  Edwards  have  been  but  for  his  grandmother, 
Esther  Stoddard,  first  known  as  Esther  Warham  Mather,  who  married 
at  sixteen  the  fiist  minister  of  Northampton,  with  whom  she  lived  ten 
years,  beanng  him  three  children;  who  married  then  the  second  minis- 
ter of  Northampton,  with  whom  she  lived  fifty-nine  years,  bea  ing  him 
eleven  children — fourteen  in  all  —  seven  sons  and  seven  daughters; 
and  then  survived  him  seven  years  and  died  at  the  age  of  ninetv-two. 
Her  descendants  number  more  than  four  thousand,  and  some  of  them 
are  among  our  most  distinguished  citizens,  men  in  all  the  learned  pro- 
fessions—  senators,  judges,  governors,  one  o^  our  vice-presidents  —  trace 
their  lineage  to  that  noble  woman,  who  at  the  very  beginning  of  our  civic 
life  impressed  her  personality  upon  this  city  in  a  way  that  will  never 
cease  to  be  felt.  [Applause.]  When  woman  manifests  uch  ability  as 
this,  is  she  not  worth  educating? 

I  recall  another  woman.  It  has  been  said  today  we  never  had  any 
trial  for  witchcraft.  We  had  one.  Mary  Parsons  was  once  on  trial  for 
witchcraft.  She  had  previously  been  on  trial  for  slander.  The  woman 
who  accused  her  said,  "Let  us  leave  it  out  to  referees."  She  said,  "No, 
I  will  go  into  court."  She  accordingh^  faced  her  accuser,  convinced 
the  judges,  and  her  accuser  was  fined.  Eighteen  years  after  the  same 
Mary  Parsons  was  tried  for  witchcraft  before  he  courts  of  the  Com- 
monwealth. She  faced  again  her  accusers,  went  into  court  and  plead 
her  own  case  and  won  again  the  victory.  No  one  ever  heard  anything 
more  of  witchcraft  in  Northampton  after  that.  [Applause.]  She  was 
doubtless  a  bewitching  w^oman.     [Laughter.] 

There  is  another  woman  to  whom  we  are  greatly  indebted,  whose 
biography  gives  us  one  of  the  most  interesting  pictures  of  Northampton 
life — Anne  Jean  Lyman,  to  whose  son  we  owe  the  Academy  of  Music 
and  the  Lyman  Plant-House.  Women  like  these  fostered  the  spirit  out 
of  which  Smith  College  originated — the  spirit  for  which  Smith  College 
today  stands. 

I  will  not  weary  your  patience,  however,  at  this  late  hour,  by  any 
extended  remarks  about  Smith  College.  Let  me  simply  say,  in  conclu- 
sion, that  the  young  ladies  of  Smith  College  wait  in  delegations  at  the 
college  houses  to  show  the  strangers  and  visitors  here  any  objects  of 
interest  which  they  may  desire  to  see.  They  will  speak  for  Smith  College 
more  eloquently  and  effectively  than  its  president  can. 

I  heartily  sympathize  with  what  was  said  today  by  our  presiding 
officer.     There  is  no  antagonism  here  between  the  town  and  the  gown, 


324  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

perhaps  because  the   gown  is  worn  by   those   who   ought   to   wear  it. 
[Laughter.]     I  hope  there  never  will  be. 

I  trust  that  the  union  which  now  exists  will  be  perfected  and  the 
resources  of  the  college  enlarged,  possibly  by  some  of  these  bachelor 
friends  here  who  may  be  stimulated  by  the  examples  of  their  prede- 
cessors, so  that  in  the  future  she  may  become  a  still  greater  light  and 
blessing  to  mankind.     [Laughter  and  applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  Ladies  and  Gentlemen:  The  committee  ap- 
pointed by  the  City  Government  to  invite  speakers  stopped  with  Doctor 
Seelye  as  the  last  speaker,  not  because  of  any  lack  of  material.  There 
was  an  embarrassment  of  riches,  and  the  committee  unanimously  select- 
ed these  eight  gentlemen  to  whom  you  have  listened.  There  are  many 
more,  very  many  more,  who  could,  in  a  like  eloquent,  instructive  and 
entertaining  manner,  address  you.  If  3'ou  will  hear,  I  will  introduce 
to  you  a  gentleman  whom,  if  he  speaks,  you  will  be  very  glad  to  hear, 
and  I  introduce  him  because  a  lady,  a  distinguished  daughter  of  North- 
ampton, has  sent  up  her  card  on  which  these  words  are  written,  "Can 
we  not  hear  from  Col.  Parsons,  the  direct  descendant  of  the  first  man 
born  here.  Cornet  Joseph  Parsons?"  [Applause.]  We  will  hear  Col. 
Parsons.     [Applause.] 

Dr.  Seelye.  Let  me  say,  before  Col.  Parsons  arises,  that  Cornet 
Joseph  Parsons  was  either  the  son  or  husband — 

CoL.  Parsons.     Husband. 

Dr.  Seelye.  The  husband  of  Mary  Parsons,  and  united  with  her 
in  her  prosecution. 

Colonel  Parsons'  IRemarfts 

Mr.  Toastmaster,  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  Mr.  Mayor: 

I  have  sat  here  and  enjoyed  this  entertainment  more  than  I  have 
any  other  entertainment  hardly  in  my  life.  I  was  not  called  upon  to 
speak;  was  not  expecting  to.  Now,  what  shall  I  talk  about,  was  my 
first  thought. 

This  is  the  celebration  of  the  good  old  city  of  Northampton.  Just 
as  the  party  who  sent  up  the  card  says,  I  was  born  right  over  here,  and 
my  father  before  me,  within  a  stone's  throw  of  this  college.  My  father 
had,  as  they  used  to  have  in  those  days,  a  family  of  eight  children — five 
boys,  three  girls.  He  married,  as  he  thought  at  that  time,  late  in  life, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-eight.  Otherwise  he  would  have  had  his  number 
up  to  ten,  which  he  always  desired  to  have.  He  told  his  sons  that  he 
had  lost  six  years  of  his  life,  and  before  the  sons  and  daughters  reached 
the  age  of  twenty-two,  they  took  his  advice  and  were  all  married,  and 
they  had  families,  and  we  used  to  gather  here  at  the  old  homestead. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


325 


Col.  Joseph   B.  Parsons 


I  said  to  Mr.  Hammond  here,  "I  have 
two  nieces  here  from  out  of  town. 
Can  I  bring  them  up  on  the  platform 
here?"  He  said  certainly,  and  I 
went  out  and  you  see  there  was  a 
crowd  of  eight  came  poking  up  here. 
Now  Northampton  has  been  my 
home,  but  I  have  been  away  from 
here  for  a  number  of  years.  It  is  the 
prettiest  town  in  the  old  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts.  Not  only 
the  people  of  Northampton  believe 
it,  but  most  ever}^  one  that  has  ever 
visited  this  old  town  agrees  with  me 
on  that. 

Northampton  had  for  her  fathers 
men  of  stern  integrity.  As  a  boy  I 
looked  up  to  those  old  leaders  and 
moulders  of  public  opinion.  I  was 
reading  Gov.  Long's  address  as  I 
came  up  on  the  train  this  morning 
and  he  says  we  grow  stronger,  if  I  understood  it,  better,  greater 
men  today.     From  my  standpoint  I  can  hardly  believe  it. 

When  the  war  broke  out,  when  Sumter  was  fired  upon,  why,  these 
old  men  here — Hopkins,  Delano,  Osmvn  Baker,  and  a  lot  of  them — 
clubbed  together  and  led  the  men  in  drilling  in  your  old  town  hall  down 
there,  and  the  consequence  was  that  the  old  hall  rang  with  patriot- 
ismi.  I  can  see  Osmyn  Baker  now,  as  he  walked  up  the  aisle  and  said, 
"Young  men,  young  men,  go  to  the  front!"  The  consequence  was 
that  the  old  militia  company  that  I  was  a  member  of  before  the  war 
for  twelve  years,  the  young  men,  wanted  to  go.  These  men  with  families, 
they  were  business  men,  doctors,  merchants.  When  the  young  man 
determined  to  go  he  went  out  with  that  old  company,  and  he  said, 
"Gentlemen,  you  are  excused  for  the  present.  Here  are  two  hundred 
men  that  want  to  go  into  the  old  company."  The  old  company  was 
filled  up.  The  first  provision  for  the  war  from  the  western  part  of  the 
state  w^as  one  hundred  and  one  men,  and  from  the  old  company  in  this 
town  twenty-seven  commissions  were  issued  and  twenty-one  men 
brought  back  at  the  close  of  the  service. 

Now,  Mr.  Toastmaster,  it  was  not  the  soldiers  that  wiped  out  the 
rebellion.  There  were  three  classes.  There  were  the  Old  Guard  that 
backed  the  boys  up,  and  there  were  the  women  of  the  war.  What 
women  there  were  in  the  war !  I  remember  as  I  came  off  the  battlefield 
of  Fair  Oaks  a  Mrs.  Trotter  as  she  appeared  for  the  first  time,  just  as 
I  did,  and  took  care  of  me  on  the  voyage  from  the  White  House  to 
Boston.     I  never  have  seen  her  since. 


326  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Then  there  was  the  Old  Guard.  Osmyn  Baker  was  my  ideal  of  the 
men  of  this  town.  He  had  an  only  son.  He  was  in  college.  He  had 
urged  the  boys  on.  The  boy  was  just  graduated  at  Ainherst  College. 
He  couldn't  remain  at  home.  The  father's  principles  were  so  instilled 
into  the  boy  that  he  enlisted  and  followed  the  fortunes  of  the  army  of 
the  Potomac.  I  met  him  a  number  of  times.  He  was  connected  with 
the  Fourth  Artillery.  It  seems  to  me  I  can  hear  the  order  of  Burnside 
come  down  through  the  years,  "Hold  the  bridge  at  all  hazards!"  then 
the  tremendous  cannonade  and  the  musketry  and  smoke,  and  as  the 
battle  cleared  away  the  cheers  for  the  Union,  instead  of  the  rebel  yell. 
But  at  what  sacrifice  !  And  Baker  yielded  up  his  life  in  that  glorious 
struggle,  and  died  as  a  soldier  ever  would  love  to  die,  if  die  he  must, 
fighting  and  dealing  the  enemies  of  his  country  what  they  deserved. 

Now,  sir,  who  suffered  the  most,  the  Old  Guard  or  the  young  men? 
You  can  read  his  record  on  yonder  tombstone,  "Fell  at  Antietam,  aged 
twenty-two."  We  read  in  the  Bible  that  Methuselah  lived  nine  hundred 
and  sixty-nine  years  and  then  passed  away.  Young  Baker  lived  longer 
and  did  more.  He  helped  save  this  great  Union  of  ours,  and  when  I 
think  of  the  elder  Baker,  that  that  was  his  only  son,  and  he  must  go  on 
living  and  go  down  to  the  grave  mourning  this  son ! 

But  time  has  passed.  Forty  years  have  passed,  and  now  we  glory 
that  young  Baker  went  out  and  that  your  cemetery  holds  his  remains, 
as  it  holds  the  remains  of  other  Northampton  sons,  making  it  doubly 
sacred. 

My  comrades  of  the  army,  you  who  are  here,  how  thankful  we 
should  be  to  the  God  of  Battles  that  we  are  permitted  to  live  to  see  this 
day  and  enjoy  these  festivities  and  see  the  great  growth  of  the  country. 
Our  comrades  who  fell,  all  the  way  from  the  streets  of  Baltimore  to  the 
surrender  of  Appomattox,  were  not  permitted  to  behold  this  glorious 
day.  This  country  by  their  valor  was  saved.  The  new  flag,  now 
saluted  in  all  lands  and  on  all  waters,  is  the  flag  of  the  world,  the 
glorious  flag  of  the  world,  an  emblem  of  liberty  and  the  home  of  all 
nations,  of  those  who  desire  to  come  here  and  make  themselves  true 
citizens.     I  thank  you.     [Applause.] 


Judge  Bassett.  In  your  behalf  I  thank  the  lady  who  sent  up 
the  card. 

The  exercises,  according  to  the  program,  end  here.  The  band 
will  play  three  more  numbers  and  will  be  glad  to  have  you  remain  and 
hear  them. 

This  was  the  program  rendered  bv  the  band : 
March;      "  Temple  of  Industry "         .......  Bond 


Overture:      "Caliph  of  Bagdad" 
Waltz:      "Under  Southern  Skies" 
"Tannhauser  March" 
Selection:      "Bedelia" 
Two-Step:     "Navajo" 


Boil  die  u 

Carlton 

Wagner 

Arr.  h\  O.  E.  Sutton 


LETTERS       OE       REGRET 

THE  following  letters  of  regret  were  received  from  prominent 
men  whom  it  had  been  hoped  to  have  present  at  the  Post- 
Prandial  exercises  and  address  the  gathering  in  the  Pavilion 
The  motives  which  led  to  the  selection  of  these  individuals  are  referred 
to  in  an  earlier  part  of  this  work,  under  the  head  of  committee  work. 
The  replies  to  invitations  were  as  follows  : 

ffrom  tbe  Secretary  to  iPreslDent  Cbarles  "M.  JEliot 

Of  Harvard  University 

President  Eliot  regrets  that  the  pressure  of  his  university  duties 
during  the  closing  weeks  of  the  academic  year  would  make  it  impossible 
for  him  to  visit  Northampton  on  the  day  of  your  Celebration,  and  that 
he  must  therefore  decline  your  kind  invitation  to  the  banquet  on  June  7. 
Thanking  you  on  the  President's  behalf,  for  your  cordial  invitation,  I 
am  very  truly  yours. 

The  following  letters  of  regret  were  received : 

Sfxom  Senator  Cbaunce^  /lib.  Dcpew 

Or  New  York 

I  am  in  receipt  of  your  very  attractive  invitation  to  be  present  w4th 
you  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  June  7.  As  I  have  an  address  to  deliver  on 
June  g,  in  the  West,  it  will  be  impossible  for  me  to  come;  otherwise 
nothing  would  give  me  greater  pleasure. 

jfrom  IPrc6t&ent  ^(motbg  2)\vic?bt 

Or  Yale  University 

I  beg  you  to  accept  my  thanks  for  your  very  kind  letter  and  for  the 
invitation  from  your  committee  for  the  banquet  on  June  7,  but  regret 
that  I  shall  be  unable  to  be  present  on  the  occasion,  that  I  am  sure  will 
be  of  much  interest  for  all  the  citizens  and  descendants  of  Northampton. 
Assuring  you  and  your  associates  of  the  committee  of  my  very  high 
regard,  I  am  very  truly  yours. 

jfrom  JuOgc  5obn  iproctor  Clarice 

Of  New  York 

I  have  received  your  courteous  invitation  to  be  one  of  the  post- 
prandial speakers  at  the  banquet  on  the  afternoon  of  June  7.  I  appre- 
ciate the  courtesy  and  honor  of  the  invitation,  but  I  am  compelled  by 
the  pressure  of  judicial  work  to  decline.  I  do  not  see  how  I  can  get  to 
Northampton  at  all  for  the  Celebration.  Trusting  that  the  festivities 
will  be  most  successful,  and  with  many  memories  of  the  old  town  in 
which  my  people  have  lived  so  many  years,  I  am  very  truly  yours. 


A  Portal  to  all  Arts 


Then  besides  the  classic  spirit  that  haunts  the  scenes  of  the  Wept 
of  the  Wish-ton-Wish,  Elsie  Venner  and  Kathrina,  there  is,  every- 
where pervading  the  far-including  scene,  that  sombre,  mysterious  air 
of  tragic  tradition,  associating  all  natural  objects  with  the  exterminated, 
aboriginal  dwellers.  Their  heroism  and  suffering  av%  recalled,  their 
name  perpetuated  by  that  of  every  height  or  sinuous  water  course. 
.  .  .  Here  is  the  broad  portal  to  all  arts;  picturesqueness  and  heroisin 
in  htiman  life,  grandeur  and  beauty  in  simple  scenery,  to  quicken  the 
poet,  the  sculptor  or  the  painter;  a  deep,  placid  current  of  inspiration. 

Artist  John   P.   Davis 


But  the  most  exquisite  scenery  of  the  whole  landscape  is  formed 
by  the  river  and  its  extended  m.argin  of  beautiful  intervals.  When 
the  eye  traces  this  majestic  stream,  meandering  with  a  singular 
course  through  these  delightful  fields,  wandering  in  one  place  five 
miles  to  gain  one,  and  in  another  four  miles  to  gain  seventy  vards, 
enclosing,  almost  immediately  beneath  an  island  of  twenty  acres,  ex- 
quisite in  its  form  and  verdure  and  adorned  on  the  northern  end  with 
a  beautiful  grove.  .  .  It  will  be  difficult  not  to  say,  that  with  these 
exquisite  varieties  of  beauty  and  grandeur  the  relish  for  landscape  is 
not  filled;  neither  a  wish  for  higher  perfection,  nor  an  idea  of  what 
it  is  remaining  in  the  mind. 

Dr.  Timothy  Dwight,  President  of  Yale  College 


Come    to    these    scenes    of    peace, 
Where,    to    rivers    murmuring, 
The    sweet    birds    all    the    summer    sing. 

Where    cares    and    toil    and    sadness    cease ! 


William  Lisle  Bowles 


COLONIAL         RECEPTION 

CLOSING  FUNCTION  OF  THE  CELEBRJTION 
GIVEN  BT  BErrr  JLLEN  CHAPTER,  D.  A.  R. 
T  U  E  S  D  A  r     EVENING,      JUNE     7,      1904 

N'^  O  commemoration  would  be  complete  were  it  uncrowned  by 
a  successful  social  function,  one  graced  by  the  beauty  of 
women  and  honored  by  the  courtliness  of  men. 

The  existence  in  the  city  of  a  chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution  was  most  fortunate,  and  an  offer,  from  its  regent  and 
officers,  to  give  an  evening  reception  in  honor  of  the  Anniversary,  was 
encouraged  both  by  co-operation  and  by  substantial  aid  from  the  Exec- 
utive and  Finance  Committee  of  the  Celebration. 

This  chapter  was  founded  in  1896,  by  Mrs.  George  W.  Cable  of 
Northampton,  with  the  advice  and  assistance  of  Mrs.  David  Todd  of 
Amherst,  and  its  list  of  twenty-one  charter  members  includes  the  names 
of  many  prominent  women  of  the  city's  society.  The  chapter  was 
named  the  Betty  Allen  Chapter,  in  honor  of  the  memory  of  a  staunch 
mother  of  the  American  Revolution,  who  was  married  by  the  Rev. 
Jonathan  Edwards  to  Joseph  Allen,  in  the  old  Parsons  house  in  South 
street,  and  who  provided  six  stalwart  sons  for  her  country's  service  in 
the  war  for  independence,  one  of  these  sons,  a  chaplain  in  the  army, 
acquiring  the  title  of  the  "Fighting  Parson,"  at  the  battle  of  Ben- 
nington. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  Hopkins  (since  deceased)  and  Miss  Mary  Annette 
Allen,  local  relatives  of  Betty  Allen,  were  made  honorary  members  of 
the  chapter.  In  the  Quarter-Millennial  year  of  the  city's  history  the 
chapter  had  increased  to  a  membership  of  sixty  women,  and  had  made 
a  notable  record  for  success  in  literary  and  social  entertainments  as  well 
as  for  patriotic  enterprises. 

Preliminaries  for  the  Colonial  Reception  having  been  decided  upon, 
invitations  were  issued  to  the  full  capacity  of  the  City  Hall,  and  guests 
were  requested  to  wear  the  colonial  style  of  dress,  to  which  request  there 
was  a  highly  gratifying  response.  The  occasion  was  deemed  timely  for 
the  display  of  long-treasured  costumes,  and  of  various  accessories  to 
them  of  the  olden  time.  It  is  probable  that  many  a  drawer  and  chest, 
long  relegated  to  solitude  and  darkness,  was  ransacked  by  fair  hands 
those  June  days ;  the  more  youthful  searchers  being  suspected  of  the  fell 


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Miss  Helex  G.  Cook 


purpose  of  furbishing  up  the  contents 
of  those  ancient  receptacles  for  a 
severer  compaign  against  masculine 
hearts  than  ever  their  ancestral  dames 
maintained.  The  men,  on  the  other 
hand,  showed  creditable  enterprise  in 
representing  the  dress  as  well  as  the 
stateliness  and  gallantry  of  the  bygone 
davs,  and  the  result  was  an  assemblage 
of  rare  interest,  a  galaxy  of  gayety, 
novelty  and  beauty  fully  equalling  the 
happy  anticipation. 

Bv  means  of  tasteful  decoration,  a 
beautiful  effect  was  produced  in  the 
interior  of  the  City  Hall.  Using  laurel 
garlands  and  wreaths,  with  the  colors 
of  the  chapter,  yellow  and  white,  Miss 
Helen  C.  Sergeant  and  Miss  Helen  G. 
Cook,  committee  on  decorations,  transformed  the  place  into  an 
artistic  and  imposing  drawing-room.  Fleecy  bunting  festooned  the 
ceilings  and  walls,  dainty  lace  the  windows,  and  the  emblem  of  the 
society,  a  wheel  with  the  spindle  and  flax,  the  words,  "Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,"  encirchng  it,  proved  effective  as  a  central 
ornament  above  the  speakers'  platform.  The  emblem  was  greatly 
magnified,  shone  in  blue  and  gold  colors,  and  sparkled  with  electric 
lights  beneath  a  handsome  banner  of  national  design.  The  simplicity 
and  symmetry  of  the  decorations,  thus  produced,  in  an  interior  of  little 
promise,  called  out  much  appreciative  admiration. 

To  the  following  committees  was  due  much  of  the  success  of  the 
occasion: 

Eiifcrtaiumcut  — Miss  Clara  P.  Bodman,  chairman;  Mrs.  Mary 
Southwick,  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Collins,  Mrs.  Louis  L.  Campbell,  Miss  Julia 
Imogene  Prindle. 

Refreshment— Mrs.  Mary  D.  Warner,  chairman;  Mrs.  Clarence  R. 
Gardner,  Mrs.  Grace  C.  Rose,  Miss  Ina  F.  Davis. 

Invitation  —  Miss  Lucv  J.  Loud,  chairman;  Mrs.  Frank  A.  Water- 
man, Mrs.  Frank  E.  Davis,  Miss  Fannie  W.  Edwards,  Mrs.  Olive  N. 
Spelman  of  WilUamsburg. 


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Introduction  —  Mrs.  Harvey  T.  Shores,  Mrs.  vSamuel  W.  Lee,  Miss 
Cora  L.  Blair,  Mrs.  John  Pierpont  of  Williamsburg,  Mrs.  Henry  D. 
Sleeper,  Miss  Ina  F.  Davis. 

Decorations  —  Miss  Helen  G.  Cook,  Miss  Helen  C.  Sergeant,  Mrs. 
Charles  N.  Fitts. 

The  attendance  of  Governor  John  L.  Bates  and  his  staff  was  an 
honor  appreciated  and  enjoyed  by  all,  and  the  fact  that  his  secretary, 
Edward  F.  Hamlin  and  his  wife  were  in  the  Governor's  suite,  furnished 
an  added   pleasure  to  many  who  knew  them  when  sometime  in  the 

seventies  they  resided 
in  Northampton. 
The  Submit  Clark 
Chapter  of  East- 
hampton  and  the 
Mary  Mattoon  Chap- 
ter of  Amherst  were 
represented,  civiHties 
between  the  three 
chapters  having  be- 
come customary. 
Hon.  Samuel  S.  Cam- 
pion of  Northamp- 
ton, England,  the 
city's  distinguished 
guest  at  this  time, 
was  also  present. 

The  officers  of  the 
chapter,  appropriate- 
ly costumed,  received 
from  800  to  1,000 
guests,  while  the 
other  members  aided 
in  serving  light  re- 
freshments and  in 
otherwise  entertain- 
ing the  visitors.  The 
receiving  party 
proper  were  Miss 
Clara    P.   Bodman, 


Mlss  Je.^me  D.  Smith 


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Miss    Isabel   A.    Cook 


Regent;  Mrs.  Olive  Nichols  Spelman,  Vice- 
Regent;  Mrs.  Anna  Covell  Copeland,  Sec- 
retary; Mrs.  Grace  Backus  Rose,  Treasurer; 
Miss  Helen  C.  Sergeant,  Registrar,  and  Mrs. 
J.  Everett  Brady,  Historian.  The  only  liv- 
ing ex-Regent,  Miss  Mary  Manning  Walker, 
received  with  them. 

Many  former  residents  of  the  city  par- 
ticipated in  the  event,  among  whom  were 
Mrs.  Gordon  Hall  of  Chicago,  widow  of  Rev. 
Gordon  Hall,  pastor  for  twenty-eight  years 
of  the  Edwards  Church,  and  her  son.  Dr. 
Gordon  Hall  of  New  York;  Col.  Joseph  B. 
Parsons  and  his  son,  Frank  B.  Parsons;  Mrs. 
Arthur  C.  James  of  New  York,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Sydenham  C.  Parsons;  Mrs. 
Katherine  Tryon  Smith  of  Springfield,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late 
Henry  Shepherd; 
Mr  s .  Caroline 
Dewey    Smith, 


daughter  of  Joseph  Lathrop ;  Miss  Ellen  C. 
Parsons  and  Mrs.  Harriet  G.  Doubleday  of 
New  York,  daughters  of  the  late  Josiah  Par- 
sons; Dr.  Frank  S.  Parsons,  son  of  the  late 
Enos  Parsons;  Miss  Louise  W.  Clarke  of 
New  York,  daughter  of  the  late  Augustus 
Clarke;  Mrs.  W.  S.  B.  Hopkins  of  Worces- 
ter, daughter-in-law  of  the  late  Erastus 
Hopkins;  Miss  Elizabeth  W.  Tappan  of 
Brookline;  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Johnson  of  East- 
hampton;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Wells  of 
Englewood,  N.  J.;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  E. 
Wakefield  and  wife  of  Boston;  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 
Murlless,  daughter  of  Henry  Childs;  Mrs.  A. 
S.  McClean  of  Springfield,  formerly  Miss 
Martha  Matthews,  and  many  others.  From 
this    incomplete  list  it    is     clear    that    past 


Dr.  Elmer    H.   Copeland 


Miss  Jane  A.  Bu.hlow,  of  Philadelphia,  at  the  Colonial  Ball 


THE  MINUET  — OPENING  MOVEMENTS 

The  ball  began  soon  after  sundown,  anil  the  opening  dance  was  always  a  minuet  de  la  cour.  The  music 
was  as  solemn  as  that  of  a  hymn.  When  the  company  had  assembled,  the  managers,  each  with  a  huge  cocked 
hat  beneath  his  arm,  would  lead  some  favored  lady,  by  the  tips  of  her  fingers,  to  the  floor.  The  bowing  and 
scraping,  the  courtesying  and  tijjtoeing,  the  solemn  advancing  of  the  minuet  once  through,  a  contra-dance  or 

a  reel  would  begin.  ,,,,  ,„.  ,,,         •         r.7 

M cM aster  s  History  of  the  American  feople. 

merchants,  farmers  and  professional  men  of  the  town  were  represented 
by  their  posterity  on  this  occasion. 

A  stately  minuet  was  danced  during  the  evening,  upon  the  stage, 
by  six  couples;  the  young  women  properly  proud  of  manner,  and  charm- 
ingly attired  in  pompadour  style ;  their  partners  deferential  and  wear- 
ing court  suits  with  knee  buckles,  frills  and  cues;  and  the  entire  party 
embelhshed  by  powdered  hair.  They  were  Miss  Gertrude  A.  Clark 
and  Charles  A.  Clark,  Miss  Helen  C.  Rose  and  Charles  H.  Tucker,  Miss 
Jane  A.  Bigelow  and  Edwin  F.  Stratton,  Miss  Blanche  L.  Strickland 
and  Dr.  Arthur  G.  Doane,  Miss  Mary  H.  Seymour  and  Benjamin  Curtis, 
*Miss  Cara  L.  Walker  and  Frank  D.  Wilcox. 


*iThe  pictures  do  not  show  the  last   nametl  couple,   as   they   were   absent   when   the   photograph 
was  taken. 


THE  MINUET,  AS  DANCED  AT  THE  COLONIAL   BALL 

Particijjantfi  —  Beginning  at  right,  Edwin  F.  Stratton,  Jane  A.  Bigelow;  Dr.  Arthur  G.  Doane, 
Miss  Blanche  Strickland;  Benjamin  Curtis,  Miss  Mary  Seymour;  Charles  H.  Tucker,  Miss  Helen 
Rose;  Charles  A.  Clark,  Miss  Gertrude  Clark. 

The  display  of  choice  articles  of  ancient  dress  and  jewelry  by  the 
company  in  general  was  unusual,  both  in  quaintness  and  value.  There 
were  rare  combs,  lace  berthas,  bags  and  fans,  wigs,  historic  snuff-boxes, 
bracelets  and  necklaces,  and  an  unusual  number  of  wedding  gowns. 

Miss  Julia  Imogene  Prindle  and  Mrs.  James  Morven  Smith  ar- 
ranged tableaux  of  portraiture  upon  the  stage,  for  the  greater  benefit 
in  observation  of  the  throng  upon  the  floor.  The  tableaux  were,  "A 
Gainsborough  Lady  and  Gentleman,"  by  Charles  A.  Clark  and  Miss 
Gertrude  A.  Clark;  "The  Minute  Man,"  by  Elbridge  G.  Southwick; 
"The  Spinning  Wheel,"  etc.  The  stage  was  arranged  to  represent  a 
room  in  a  colonial  house,  with  a  spinning  wheel,  low -boy,  antique 
chairs  and  other  objects  used  in  colonial  and  revolutionary  days. 

The  description  of  a  few  costumes  will  serve  as  types  of  the  whole 
admirable  portrayal  of  a  bygone  regime  of  society.  Miss  Clara  C. 
Allen,  daughter  of  Judge  William  Allen  (deceased),  wore  a  brown 
brocade  gown  with  pointed  corsage  and  handsome  silk  petticoat;  of 


336  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

which  gown  tradition  relates  that  the  first  owner  danced  with  Gen- 
eral George  Washington.  Thomas  M.  Shepherd  wore  a  quaint  suit  of 
striped  silk,  made,  it  is  told,  to  wear  at  the  English  court.  Miss 
Elizabeth  Williston,  daughter  of  A.  Lyman  Williston,  wore  a  bridal 
gown  of  1804  and  pearls  of  the  same  date.  It  was  a  trained  brown 
silken  Watteau  gown,  and  was  first  worn  by  her  great-grandmother. 
Miss  Jane  A.  Bigelow  of  Philadelphia,  niece  of  Miss  Jane  F.  Bigelow  of 
Northampton,  wore  a  rich  brocade,  made  with  a  double  Watteau, 
which  was  also  a  bridal  gown  worn  by  her  great -great -grandmother  in 
1769.  Charles  A.  Clark  wore  a  blue  satin  court  dress  with  a  white 
satin  embroidered  vest.  Miss  Gertrude  A.  Clark  wore  a  Dresden  fig- 
ured silk  over  a  white  silk  petticoat,  gold  beads,  a  high  comb  and 
a  Gainsborough  hat  with  plumes. 

Miss  Isabel  A.  Cook,  wearing  a  genuine  ancient  wedding  gown  of 
white  ivory  satin,  a  rose  with  green  leaves  in  low  coiled  hair,  unpowdered, 
and  her  great -grandmother's  gold  beads,  was  an  effective  exponent  of 
the  early  nineteenth-century  epoch.  Miss  Helen  G.  Cook  was  gowned 
in  a  lemon  silk  grenadine,  double  Watteau  style.  She  wore  a  graceful 
liberty  scarf,  and  the  pendant  to  her  gold  beads,  as  well  as  to  those  of 
her  sister's,  was  the  locket  portrait  of  an  ancestor. 

The  appearance  of  the  hall,  filled  with  guests,  in  these  and  many 
other  equally  beautiful  costumes,  can  never  be  forgotten  by  those  who 
viewed  it,  as  many  did,  from  the  gallery.  From  a  sheltered  nook,  em- 
bowered in  evergreen  trees  and  ferns,  an  orchestra  discoursed  sweet 
music  during  the  evening,  and  as  the  throngs  of  guests  gradually  dis- 
appeared, a  Virginia  reel  was  formed,  and  under  the  guidance  of  Chris- 
topher Clarke,  who  has  doubtless  threaded  the  mazes  of  more  dances 
than  any  other  of  Northampton  citizens,  the  Colonial  Reception  of 
June  7,  1904,  was  brought  to  a  happy  end,  "fading  in  music." 

"  The  lights  are  out  and  gone  are  all  the  guests." 

Many  years  may  pass  ere  the  old  City  Hall,  or  the  new  one  which  may 
rise  to  take  its  place,  is  illuminated  and  arrayed  in  festal  attire  for  a 
birthday  celebration  of  the  mother  of  us  all. 

Two  hundred  and  fifty  years  from  now  whose  will  be  the  names 
to  organize  the  celebration,  to  figure  on  committees  and  formally  re- 
ceive the  city's  guests?  We  cannot  tell,  but  let  us  hope  that  the 
Strongs   and    Parsonses,    Clapps    and  Clarks,    Lymans  and   Edwardes, 


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337 


Shepherds  and  Smiths — all  our  good  old  Northampton  names — may 
be  worthily  represented  then.  Let  us  hope  that  in  the  very  near  fu- 
ture the  representatives  of  these  families  and  all  others  with  an  interest 
in  the  history  of  which  we  are  so  rightfully  proud,  may  organize  an 
historical  society,  which,  co-operating  with  the  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution,  will  preserve  in  its  archives  the  records  of  the  city's 
history,  past  and  in  the  making;  cherish  historic  landmarks,  and  see 
that  our  descendants  are  not  without  data  or  material  for  the  historic 
setting  of  our  500th  anniversary,  that  — 


The  Voice  still  soundeth  on 
From  the  centuries  that  are  gone 
To  the  centuries  that  shall  be." 


OPEN 


AIR 


CONCERTS 


Two  open-air  concerts  were  given  on  Tuesday,  besides  that  given 
by  the  Northampton  band  at  the  fireworks  in  the  evening.  According 
to  the  determined  program  and  as  announced  in  the  official  souvenir 
pages,  there  should  have  been  one  by  the  Stevens  band  of  Chicopee,  at 
the  Bridge-street  park  in  the  evening,  but  this  being  arranged  for 
before  the  fireworks  had  been  definitely  decided  upon,  it  was  afterwards 
abandoned,  as  being  unnecessary. 

The  programs  for  the  three  concerts  as  actually  given,  follow: 

Stevens  .tGanD  at  JGriOcie  Street  ipaii?,  2.30  p.  m. 

March  Et-Cortege  —  "La  Reine  de  Saba"         .....       Gotnuui 

Overture — "Zanipa"  .  .  ...  .  .  .  .         llcrotd 

Selection — "Wang"        ........  Morse 

Waltz — "Confidence"     .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  Waltenfel 

Sextette  from  "  Lucia"  .......  Donizetti 

Messrs.  Smith,  Benjamin,  Schumann,  Jones,  Lewis  and  Raucliffe. 

Stevens  JBanD  at  IReviewing  StanJ),  4.30  p.  m. 

March — "Nibelungen"   .........  Wagner 

Overture — "  Barber  of  Seville  "        .......  Rossini 

Selection — "  Hungarian  Fantasie  "            ......  Tobni 

Mazurka — "LaCzarine"           ........  Ganne 

Euphonium  Solo — "  Longing  for  Home"  .....     Hartman 

Mr.  Orville  Wilson. 

Selection — "King  Dodo"        .....  .  .         Luders 


IRortbampton  :l8anD  at  3)rivinci  iparl^— S'ireworl?^     S  p.  m. 


March — "Stars  and  Stripe.s"  .... 

Overture — "Stradella"  ..... 

Pas  Des  Fleurs     ...... 

Introduction  and  Bridal  Chorus  from  "Lohengrin" 
Selection  of  Popular  Airs    ..... 

March — "Alabama,"  with  Trombone  Finale 


^oiisa 


Von  Flotow 

.    De  Liebes 

Wagner 

A  filler 

StuHc 


F  I  R  E  W  O  R  K  S 


FAOR  the  general  public,  the  fireworks,  Tuesday  evening,  were  the 
closing  event  of  the  Celebration,  as  the  Colonial  Reception,  which 
followed,  in  the  City  Hall,  was  an  affair  arranged  by  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  for  the  pleasure  of  those  in  society 
who  cared  for  less  demonstrative  show,  without  noise. 

There  had  been  much  discussion  in  the  jjublic  press,  and  otherwise, 
as  to  the  propriety  or  safety  of  having  fireworks  during  the  Celebration. 
It  was  contended  that  there  was  danger  of  a  general  conflagration,  and 
that  such  a  display  would  be  extravagant.  Popular  feeling,  however, 
prevailed,  with  the  cited  example  of  other  cities  upon  similar  occasions, 
and  it  w^as  finally  decided  by  the  Executive  Committee  to  give  the 
Sports  and  Games  Committee  means  and  authority  to  carry  out  a  good 
scheme  of  fireworks. 

The  result  proved  the  wisdom  of  the  decision.  The  committee 
awarded  the  contract  to  the  Hasten  &  Wells  Company  of  Boston,  and 
that  concern  carried  out  its  part  in  complete  form.  Then  the  com- 
mittee had  made  ample  preparations  for  the  accommodation  and  safe 
gathering  and  dispersal  of  the  great  crowd  expected.  Electric  lights 
were  put  up  for  the  occasion  on  Fair  street,  and  the  police  arrangements 
were  perfect. 

Such  a  crowd  was  never  seen  on  the  driving  park  before.  About 
ten  thousand  people,  it  is  estimated,  were  there,  and  yet  the  crowd  at 
the  center  of  the  city,  on  Main  street,  seemed  greater  than  ever,  during 
the  same  hour  as  the  fireworks.  The  Northampton  band  played  on 
the  driving  park,  and  the  people  began  to  gather  as  early  as  seven  o  'clock, 
soon  filling  the  grand  stand,  and  then  extending  out  over  the  grounds 
like  a  huge  fan. 

The  exhibition  was  a  complete  success,  without  an  interruption  or 
fault,  and  was  received  by  the  multitude  with  the  usual  expressions  of 
delight  and  admiration  on  such  occasions,  only  much  intensified  for  this 
exhibition,  as  this  was  much  the  finest  pyrotechnic  display  ever  seen 
in  Northampton.  The  chorus  of  "Ah's"  and  "Oh's"  was  frequently 
raised,  and  the  best  set  pieces,  "Uncle  Sam"  and  the  "City  Seal," 
brought  forth  expressions  of  the  greatest  delight.  The  final  piece, 
"Adieu,"  left  the  grounds  in  darkness,  and  the  great  crowd  then  retired 
quickly,  but  many  of  them,  probably,  with  thoughts  turned  toward 
the    300th    anniversary — which  some  will  live  to   see  and  others  not 


340  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

and  the  splendors  of  national,  state  and  municipal  achievement  which 
will  probably  multiply  in  the  meantime. 

The  complete  pyrotechnic  program  follows : 

©r&er  ot  jfireworhg 

1.  A  salute  of  aerial  bombs,  which  awoke  the  echoes  for  miles 
around. 

2.  Prismatic  illumination  loo  feet  long.  This  displayed  an  arch 
of  beautiful  hanging  prisms  extending  loo  feet  across  the  driving  park, 
producing  a  rainbow  of  changing  colors  of  long  duration  and  magnifi- 
cent effect,  lustrous  as  the  photosphere  of  the  sun  itself.  These  prisms, 
at  an  elevation  of  thirty  to  forty  feet,  were  all  fired  at  one  and  the  same 
time,  and  changed  from  color  to  color  while  under  fire,  displaying  the 
finest  blendings  and  shades  of  the  national  colors. 

3.  Immense  exhibition  rockets  filled  the  air  with  stars  and  showers 
of  gold  and  silver,  peacock  tails,  bursting  meteors,  aerolites,  serpents 
and  snakes,  and  other  novelties. 

4.  Heavy  exhibition  shells  were  fired  from  mortar  guns,  filling 
the  air  with  shooting  stars,  dragon  flights,  strings  of  pearls,  hissing  snakes, 
trails  of  electric  flame,  meteoric  eruptions  and  other  devices. 

5.  Motto,  "Our  250th  Anniversary."  This  motto  was  composed 
of  immense  double-line  letters  and  sun  cases  over  the  top  threw  a  rain- 
bow arch  of  fire  over  the  motto,  making  a  very  beautiful  effect. 

6.  Parachute  rockets  threw  up  immense  colored  pot  fires,  led  by 
parachutes,  which  floated  through  the  air,  changing  color  before  fading 
from  view. 

7.  Aerolites  displayed  trails  of  fire  of  immense  size  and  great 
brilliancy,  afterwards  ending  with  a  burst  of  colors  of  the  greatest 
beauty  and  effect. 

8.  Meteor  batteries  threw  high  in  the  air  great  showers  of  bursting 
meteors,  which  filled  the  atmosphere  with  a  mass  of  flame  and  fire. 

g.  A  flight  of  saucissons  ascended  with  great  velocity,  and  upon 
reaching  their  elevation  each  one  exploded,  producing  a  very  interesting 
and  novel  effect. 

10.  Dragon  shells  burst  high  in  the  air,  releasing  nests  of  dragons 
and  serpents,  which  chased  each  other  about  in  every  direction,  finallv 
exploding  with  loud  detonations. 

1 1 .  Revolving  fountain.  This  design  represented  an  immense 
fountain,  which  revolved  rapidly,  producing  a  very  brilliant  and  beauti- 
ful effect.  It  commenced  with  a  large  wheel  in  brilliant  crimson  fires, 
which  suddenly  changed  to  a  fountain  of  sparkling  flame,  throwing 
streams  of  sparkling  flame  and  fire  twenty  feet  high  in  the  air. 


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12.  Immense  gold  fountains  threw  high  in  the  air  columns  of  gold 
scintillates,  which  ascended  about  thirty  feet,  closely  resembling  gey- 
sers of  living  water. 

13.  Serpent  and  gold  rain  rockets  displayed  nests  of  fiery  serpents 
and  showers  of  gold  and  silver  rains,  interspersed  with  aerolites,  para- 
chutes and  cannon  bombs. 

14.  Japanese  double  shells  displayed  strings  of  hanging  chain 
lights,  which  were  suspended  in  mid-air,  apparently  changeable  in  color 
and  effect,  also  repeating  shells  and  parachutes,  displaying  long  strings 
of  jewels,  almost  dazzling  the  eye  of  the  beholder. 

15.  Mammoth  meteors  were  fired  in  volleys,  filling  the  atmosphere 
with  a  flood  of  light  and  blaze  of  glory,  sailing  and  floating  on  clouds  of 
fire,  with  beautiful  effects. 

16.  Merry  frolic.  This  device  commenced  with  a  dazzling  circle 
of  gold  and  colored  rings,  revolving  round  and  round  in  bands  of  gorgeous 
flame,  between  four  streams  of  silver  fire. 

17.  Colored  exhibition  mines  discharged  shower  after  shower  of 
stars  of  every  shade  of  coloring,  beautifully  blended. 

18.  Colored  batteries  filled  the  air  with  thousands  of  gerbs  in  the 
different  shades  of  red  and  green,  purple  and  gold,  azure  and  silver, 
emerald  and  amber. 

19.  Fhghts  of  heavy  rockets  displayed  changeable  lights,  golden 
spreaders,  weeping  willow  trees,  aerial  whistles,  Columbian  stars  and 
other  novelties. 

20.  A  grand  illumination  occurred  at  different  parts  of  the  driving 
park,  producing  a  very  brilliant  effect,  as  a  prelude  to  the  following 
design : 

21.  Daddy  Long-Legs.  This  curious  device  consisted  of  a  double 
belt  of  brilliant  fires,  which  formed  a  kaleidoscope  of  combined  colors 
resembling  immense  Daddy  Long-Legs,  arranged  in  lance  tubes  of  ruby, 
green  and  gold.  The  several  sections  are  made  to  rotate  in  contrary 
directions,  so  as  to  produce  angles  and  designs  of  every  conceivable 
form  and  shape. 

22.  Exhibition  shells  and  bombs  were  fired  from  heavy  mortar 
guns,  bursting  at  a  high  elevation,  filling  the  air  with  rose  fires,  star 
showers,  willow  trees,  Japanese  rains,  sunbursts,  and  many  other  new 
and  novel  devices. 

23.  Fountains  of  gold  threw  high  in  the  air  great  geysers  of  gold 
scintillates,  interspersed  with  clouds  of  fire  mist  and  spray,  making  a 
most  beautiful  effect. 

24.  Saucissons  were  fired  in  flights,  ascending  with  great  velocity, 
resembling  a  flash  of  lightning,  finally  exploding  with  a  loud,  sharp 
report  before  the  display  was  ended. 


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25.  Heavy  bombs  were  fired  from  mortar  guns,  lising  to  a  great 
height,  where  they  burst,  showing  displays  of  cannon  bombs,  traihng 
hghts,  dragon  tails,  nests  of  snakes,  comets'  tails  and  star  bursts,  pro- 
ducing fine  effects. 

26.  Sun  bursts.  The  Chariot  of  the  Sun,  guided  by  the  hand  of 
Phaeton,  was  struck  by  a  thunderbolt  and  a  world  was  destroyed,  so 
fable  records,  and  this  conflagration  was  represented.  An  immense 
wheel  of  fire,  in  radiant  colors,  having  a  photosphere  fifty  feet  in  diame- 
ter, rolled  apparently  in  space,  with  intense  brilliancy  and  dazzling 
effulgence.  A  sudden  shock,  a  deafening  detonation  was  heard,  and 
the  design  changed  to  a  ball  of  crimson  fire  and  flame,  surrounded  by 
a  corona  or  luminous  circle  of  immense  size  and  proportion.  Magnetic 
batteries  discharged  aerolites  and  cometic  fires  through  the  air,  and  far 
above  the  whirling  ball,  in  diverging  lines,  was  seen  flying  comets  and 
shafts  of  fire  in  zig-zag  and  chain-light  lines.  Exploding  gerbs  quenched 
this  flood  of  fire  and  the  darkness  of  the  night  appeared  again. 

27.  Artillery  shells  were  elevated  several  hundred  feet  in  the  air, 
where  they  exploded  with  stunning  effect,  producing  a  salute  which 
could  be  heard  for  miles. 

28.  Meteoric  eruptions  threw  out  showers  of  meteoric  and  varie- 
gated stars,  and  fire  opals,  which  ascended  in  showers,  producing  a 
very  beautiful  eft'ect. 

29.  Willow  shells  displayed  immense  weeping  willow  trees,  with 
branches  and  foliage  dripping  with  fire  spray,  producing  a  fine  effect 
in  the  heavens. 

30.  Immense  batteries  discharged  Japanese  brilliants,  showers  of 
gold  and  silver  stars,  flights  of  saucissons,  bursting  meteors,  electric 
suns,  and  many  other  new  and  novel  devices  and  designs,  almost  daz- 
zling in  their  brilliancy. 

31.  Volleys  of  mammoth  meteors  ascended  to  a  great  height, 
filling  the  atmosphere  with  floods  of  fire  and  flame,  making  a  very  daz- 
zling and  brilliant  effect. 

32.  The  Periscope.  A  gorgeous  aurora  of  royal  gems  revolved  in 
rapid  gyration,  displaying  bands  of  Promethean  fires  amid  belts  or  rib- 
bons of  crimson,  blue,  ruby  and  gold.  Suddenly  the  entire  design  was 
enveloped  in  a  mist  of  brilliant  spur  fire  and  star  mist,  through  which 
the  prismatic  coloring  of  the  "Periscope"  was  plainlv  observed,  cover- 
ing an  area  of  twenty  feet. 

^;^.  A  grand  illumination  of  emerald  and  crimson  followed,  shining 
with  great  brilliancy  upon  surrounding  objects  and  lasting  for  several 
minutes. 

34.  Fountains  of  gold  and  silver  threw  up  immense  volcanoes  of 
fire  and  spray,  which  ascended  to  a  great  height,  falling  back  to  earth 
with  fine  effect. 


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35.  Colored  rockets  of  immense  size  were  fired,  displaying  many 
new  and  novel  designs  in  the  different  colors,  blue  and  gold  stars,  crim- 
son gerbs,  purple  streamers,  umbrella  lights,  emerald  gems,  windmills,  etc. 

36.  Meteoric  storm.  This  design  consists  of  a  pyramid,  charged 
with  fire  balls,  closely  resembling  the  shooting  stars,  as  seen  in  August 
and  November  skies.  At  the  base  of  the  pyramid  suns  and  wheels,  dec- 
orated with  floral  rosettes  within  their  different  centers,  revolve  in  rapid 
rotation,  while  zones  of  jessamine  and  yellow  fire  encircle  them  in  beauty 
and  effect.  With  a  report,  as  if  from  a  thunder-cloud,  a  battery  of  im- 
mense meteoric  stars  was  discharged  and  the  atmosphere  was  filled  with 
large  exploding  meteoric  fire  balls,  thrown  upwards  several  hundred  feet. 

37.  Heavy  bombs  were  fired  from  mortar  guns,  showing  displays 
of  serpents  and  snakes,  fiery  dragons,  floral  clusters,  rosal  gerbs,  cracking 
stars,  wheels  of  silver  and  other  devices. 

38.  Serpent  rockets  discharged  nests  of  squirming,  wriggling  ser- 
pents, which  darted  about  in  every  direction,  finally  exploding  with 
loud  detonations,  producing  a  very  amusing  effect. 

39.  Flights  of  saucissons  ascended  to  a  great  height,  taking  a 
rotary  motion,  which  produced  a  very  interesting  and  amusing  effect, 
and  each  saucisson  finally  exploded  in  the  air  with  a  loud  report. 

40.  Immense  exhibition  batteries  discharged  bursting  meteors, 
cometic  stars,  fountains  of  silver,  gold  chasers,  wheat  sheafs,  streams  of 
gold  fire  and  other  devices. 

41.  Uncle  Sam  Around  the  Globe.  This  design  represented  a  full- 
size  figure  of  Uncle  Sam,  in  appropriate  dress,  shown  in  lines  of  brilliant 
lance  fires.  He  was  shown  reclining  on  an  immense  pedestal,  supported 
by  posts,  and  with  his  right  foot  balancing  an  immense  globe  represent- 
ing the  earth. 

42.  Parachute  rockets  carried  up  large  floating  lights,  which 
changed  from  green  to  crimson  as  they  sailed  through  the  air  at  a  great 
height,  producing  a  very  interesting  and  curious  effect. 

43.  Dragon  shells  released  high  in  the  air  nests  of  fiery  dragons 
and  hissing  snakes,  engaged  in  fiery  combats,  finally  exploding  one  after 
another  in  quick  succession. 

44.  Saluting  shells  were  elevated  several  hundred  feet  in  the  air, 
where  they  burst,  making  a  grand  salute  in  honor  of  the  stars  and  stripes 
in  the  following  design: 

45.  American  Flag.  This  was  a  fac-simile  of  the  stars  and  stripes, 
shown  in  lines  of  lance  fire,  in  the  appropriate  color  and  design. 

46.  Flights  of  rockets  ascended,  filling  the  air  with  gold  rains, 
silver  streamers,  ribbons  of  azure,  crimson  gerbs,  shooting  stars,  meteoric 
stars,  rainbow  lights,  signal  fires  and  other  designs. 


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47.  Heavy  exhibition  bombs  were  fired  from  mortar  guns,  filling 
the  air  with  detonating  bombs,  trails  of  silver  fire,  saiHng  stars,  para- 
chutes and  balloons,  and  other  novel  effects. 

48.  A  grand  illumination  took  place,  lasting  several  minutes,  as  a 
prelude  to  the  grand  special  design  to  follow. 

49.  City  Seal.  This  was  a  representation  of  the  seal  of  the  city 
of  Northampton,  correct  in  detail,  shown  in  lines  of  lance  fire,  making 
a  grand  design  as  a  finale  of  the  exhibition. 

50.  Aerolites  exploded  high  in  the  air,  displaying  immense  trails 
of  brilliant  fire,  ending  with  a  star  burst  of  the  most  brilliant  colors 
probably  known  to  the  pyrotechnic  art. 

51.  Salvos  of  shells  and  bombs  and  heavy  exhibition  rockets  fol- 
lowed, filling  the  air  with  a  mass  of  beautiful  color,  displaying  stars  and 
suns,  showers  and  rains,  meteors,  comets,  bursting  stars,  electric  suns 
and  other  novelties. 

52.  Motto,  "Adieu."  This  motto  was  composed  of  immense 
double-line  letters,  and  sun  cases  over  the  top  threw  a  rainbow  arch  of 
fire,  to  close  the  exhibit. 


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Historical    Collections 


Oh,  would   I  were  a  boy  again, 

When  life  seemed  formed  of  sunny   years, 
And   all   the  heart   then   knew   of  pain 

Was  swept   away  in   transient  tears  ! 

Mark  Lemon 


Let  Fate   do  her  worst,   there   are   relics   of  joy. 
Bright   dreams  of  the  past   which   she   cannot  destroy; 
Which   come  in   the   night-time   of  sorrow   and   care, 
And  bring  back  the  features  which  joy  used  to  wear. 
Long,   long  be  my  heart  with  such  memories   filled. 
Like  the  vase  in  which   roses   have   once  been  distilled. 
You  may  break,   you  may  ruin,   the  vase,   if  5^ou   will. 
But  the  scent   of  the  roses  will  hang  round  it  still. 

Thomas  Moore 


Backward,   turn  backward,   O   Time,   in   your   flight, 
Make  me  a  child   again,   just   for  tonight! 

Backward,  flow  backward,  O  tide  of  the  years  ! 
I  am  so  weary  of  toil   and  of  tears — 
Toil  without   recompense,   tears   all  in  vain — 
Take  them,   and   give  me  my  childhood   again! 

Elizabeth  Akers  Allen 


How   dear  to  my  heart   are  the  scenes   of  iny  childhood, 

When  fond   Recollection  presents  them   to  view! 

The  orchard,   the  meadow,   the  deep-tangled  wildwood. 

And  every  loved   spot  which   my  infancy  knew, — 

The  wide-spreading  pond,   and  the  inill   that  stood   by  it. 

The  bridge,   and  the  rock  where  the   cataract   fell; 

The   cot  of  my  father,   the  dairy-house  nigh  it. 

And   e'en  the  rude  bucket  which  hung  in  the  well, — 

The   old   oaken  bucket,   the  iron-bound  bucket, 

The  moss-covered  bucket,   which   hung  in  the  well. 

Samuel  Woodworth 


HISTORICAL      LOCALITIES      AND 
HISTORICAL      COLLECTIONS 

THE    BASIS    OF    THE    CELEBRATION 
A    VALUABLE    PERMANENT   WORK   PERFORMED 


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Y  far  the  most  important  part  of  the  Celebration  was  the  work 
done  by  the  committees  on  Historical  Localities  and  Historical 
Collections.  These  matters  were  the  basis  of  the  Anniversary, 
for  without  them  no  Celebration  could  properly  have  been  held.  The 
chairmen  of  these  two  committees,  Henry  S.  Gere  on  localities,  and 
Thomas  M.  Shepherd  on  collections,  were  peculiarly  fitted  for  their 
work.  They  brought  to  the  consideration  of  these  subjects  a  familiarity 
and  long  experience  which  were  very  valuable.  It  is  not  too  much  to 
say  that  the  public  were  amazed  at  the  extent  and  value  of  their  re- 
searches. The  committee  on  Historical  Localities  issued  a  pamphlet, 
embodied  in  this  work  with  some  revision,  which  had  a  large  sale,  and 
the  location,  by  signs,  of  old  meeting-houses,  court-houses,  town-houses, 
school-houses,  post-office,  taverns,  jails,  etc.,  was  a  revelation  to  every 
one.  The  work  performed  by  Chairman  Henry  S.  Gere,  in  this  line  of 
research,  will  be  of  still  greater  interest  and  value  to  succeeding  genera- 
tions. He  has  completed  a  work  in  local  topographical  history  which 
might  otherwise  have  been  lost  and  forgotten.  The  detailed  results  are 
described  in  following  pages. 

Hardly  less  important  was  the  work  performed  by  Thomas  M. 
Shepherd,  the  story  of  which  is  so  well  told  by  him  elsewhere.  The 
exhibition  prepared  by  his  committee  was  a  continuous  one  during  the 
Celebration,  and  was  visited  by  an  immense  number  of  people,  and  the 
first  authentic,  detailed  description  of  it,  given  in  this  book,  will  be  read 
with  great  interest  bv  those  who  are  interested  in  the  ancient  life  of  the 
town. 

Ibistoiical  Xocalities  /iftarl^cD 

The  Committee  on  Historical  Localities,  besides  issuing  in  pamphlet 
form  brief  descriptions  of  one  hundred  localities  of  historical  interest, 
marked  the  following  spots  with  appropriate  signs : 

At  the  southeasterly  part  of  the  Court-House  Park  were  set  these 
four  signs: 


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The  First  Meeting  House 

Stood  Here 

1654 


The 

First 

School 

House 

Stood  Here 

1661 

The  First  Town  House 

Stood  Here 

1767 


The  First  Court  House 
Stood  Here 

1737 


In  front  of  the  southwesterly  corner  of  the  First  Church,  at  the  ex- 
treme westerly  end  of  the  little  park,  were  three  signs,  connected  to- 
gether, bearing  these  inscriptions: 


North 


South 


Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard 

Preached    Here    57    Years 

1672-1729 


The  Apex  of  Meeting  House 

Hill  was  Here 

1654 


West 


The 

Meeting  House 

in  which 

Jonathan  Edwards 

Preached    Stood 

Here 

1737— 1812 

In  front  of  the  Josiah  D.  Whitney  house  on  King  street,  beneath 
one  of  the  well-known  "Jonathan  Edwards  elms,"  was  this  sign: 


Jonathan  Edwards 

Lived     Here 

1727 — 1750 

and  set  this  elm  tree 


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349 


The  site  of  the  first  jail,  on  the  west  corner  of  Old  South  street,  in 
ront  of  Jackson's  block,  was  marked  as  follows: 


The 

First 

Jail 

St 

30D    H 

1707 

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On    the    east    corner  of  Main   and   King  streets,   where  the   First 
National  Bank  building  stands,  was  this  sign: 


The  First  Post  Office 
Stood  Here 

1792 


In  front  of  the  westerly  half  of  the  First  Church  was  a  sign  bearing 
this  inscription: 


The 

Old 

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Revered 

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In  front  of  the  Mansion  House  (since  named  the  Draper  House), 
directly  opposite  the  entrance  to  Old  South  street,  was  this  sign: 


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POMEROY 

1777 

Oliver 

Warner 

1821 

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Tavern   H 

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On  Court-House  Park,  northeast  of  the  present  court-house  and  on 
a  line  with  the  old  court-house  and  "Old  Church,"  was  this  sign: 


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In  front  of  Charles  B.  Kingsley's  drug-store,  where  Dr.  Ebenezer 
Hunt  erected  his  drug-store,  the  first  store  erected  on  Shop  Row,  was 
this  sign: 


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1769 

HISTORICAL    LOCALITIES   IN  NORTHAMPTON 

COMPILED   AND   PUBLISHED   BY   THE   COMMITTEE 
ON   HISTORICAL   LOCALITIES    FOR    THE    CELEBRATION 

I.  Northampton  was  first  settled  by  white  people  in  the  spring 
of  1654,  but  its  territory  had  been  examined  as  a  desirable  place  for 
settlement  several  years  before.  It  was  then  known  only  by  the  Indian 
name  of  Nonotuck.  In  May,  1653  (a  year  before  the  actual  settlement), 
twenty-four  men  petitioned  the  General  Court  for  liberty  to  "plant, 
possess  and  inhabit "  the  place.  All  of  these  men  were  residents  of  Con- 
necticut, most  of  them  of  Hartford,  Windsor  and  Farmington.  John 
Pynchon,  Elizur  Holyoke  and  Samuel  Chapin  of  Springfield  also  peti- 
tioned to  the  same  effect  at  the  same  time.  The  General  Court  appointed 
Pynchon,  Holyoke  and  Chapin  commissioners  to  lay  out  the  bounds  of 
the  proposed  settlement,  which  they  did,  fixing  the  line  to  run  from  the 
Hadley  falls  ten  miles  north  on  the  west  side  of  the  Connecticut  river, 
and  westward  from  the  Connecticut  "nine  miles  into  the  woods."  This 
included  all  the  territory  within  the  present  limits  of  Northampton, 
Easthampton,  Southampton  and  Westhampton,  and  parts  of  Hatfield 
and  Montgomery.  The  land  was  bought  of  the  Indians  by  John  Pyn- 
chon Sept.  23,  1653,  and  on  Jan.  16,  1662,  he  turned  it  over  to  the  inhab- 
itants of  Northampton,  who  allotted  it  among  themselves,  reserving  a 
large  portion  to  be  given  to  new-comers.  The  meadow  lands  were  the 
most  desirable  and  each  settler  was  given  a  certain  amount  (usually 
about  twenty  acres),  with  a  liberal  c^uantity  of  upland.  The  town  took 
its  name  from  Northampton  in  England,  and,  although  the  Indian 
name  was  always  Nonotuck,  that  name  was  never  used  by  the  settlers. 
The  exact  day  on  which  the  first  settlers  arrived  here  is  not  known,  nor 
is  it  known  exactly  where  the  first  houses  were  built,  but  it  is  certain 
that  the  first  arrivals  were  early  in  May,  and  it  is  presumed  that  they 
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Nearly  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  remained  near  the  center  for 
more  than  one  hundred  years.  This  was  from  fear  of  the  Indians. 
After  the  close  of  the  Fiench  and  Indian  war,  in  1760,  the  outer  districts 
began  to  be  settled.  The  first  settlement  at  South  Farms  was  made  in 
1 68 7,  but  what  is  now  Florence  and  North  Farms  was  not  settled  until 
1759.  Roberts  Meadow  and  West  Farms  were  settled  soon  after,  and 
"Rail  Hill"  (now  Leeds)  in  J790.  Those  sections  were  then  covered 
with  dense  forests. 

The  first  settlers  located  on  King,  Pleasant,  Market  and  Hawley 
streets.  The  sections  next  settled  were  Bridge,  West  and  Elm  streets. 
It  was  five  years  after  the  first  settlers  arrived  before  there  was  a  house 
built  as  far  west  as  the  site  of  President  Seelye's  residence.  For  a  great 
many  years  there  were  no  streets  here.  What  we  now  call  streets  were 
simply  footpaths  from  house  to  house.  The  farms  were  large  and  the 
houses  were  considerable  distances  apart.  There  was  little  of  travel, 
and  what  there  was  was  either  on  foot  or  on  horseback.  The  center  of 
the  settlement  contained  but  a  few  buildings.  Meeting-house  hill  was 
almost  bare.  Aside  from  the  meeting-house  there  were  for  a  long  period 
of  time  no  buildings  nearer  to  it  than  the  court-house  and  school-house 
at  the  junction  of  Main  and  King  streets  and  the  minister's  house  on  the 
corner  of  Pleasant  street.  To  the  west  there  were  after  a  time  buildings 
on  the  west  corner  of  South  street,  where  Ithamar  Strong  lived,  and  on 
Main  street,  opposite  South  street,  where  Gen.  Seth  Pomeroy  lived. 
There  was  no  building  north  of  the  meeting-house  on  or  near  the  hill  for 
a  long  time.  The  meeting-house  stood  there  alone,  like  a  city  on  a  hill. 
The  ground  around  it  was  all  highwa3\  There  was  a  large  open  space  at 
the  junction  of  King  and  Pleasant  streets  with  Main  street,  which  was 
called  "School-house  common." 

2.  The  first  "meeting-house,"  used  for  religious  services,  town 
meetings  and  schools,  stood  on  the  easterly  side  of  "Meeting-house  hill," 
near  the  southeasterly  corner  of  the  present  court-house  lot.  It  was  built 
of  logs  and  was  twenty-six  feet  long  and  eighteen  feet  wide,  and  was 
erected  in  the  first  year  of  the  town's  settlement.  It  was  in  use  for  re- 
ligious meetings  seven  years.  The  second  meeting-house  was  built  in 
1 66 1,  and  was  located  on  the  top  of  "Meeting-house  hill,"  directlv  in 
front  of  the  westerly  half  of  the  present  First  Church  and  the  entrance 
to  Center  street,  that  being  the  apex  of  the  hill.  Meeting-house  hill 
was  then  several  feet  higher  than  it  is  now,  and  the  ground  at  its  base 
was  several  feet  lower.  The  meeting-house  was  approached  from  all 
sides.  A  ravine  ran  around  the  hill  from  the  west  side,  back  of  the 
present  Mansion  House,  to  King  street,  and  thence  across  Main  street 
to  Pleasant  street  and  in  the  rear  of  Shop  Row  to  Mill  river,  below 
the  old  South-street  bridge.  There  have  been  five  meeting-houses 
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second,  in  1661,  42  feet  square,  pyramid  roof,  with  a  turret  on  top;  the 


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third,  in  1737,  70  by  46  feet;  the  fourth,  known  to  the  present  gene- 
ration as  the  "Old  Church,"  in  181 2;  the  fifth  in  1876;  the  latter  was 
damaged  by  fire  in  1888  and  immediately  rebuilt,  without  essential 
change  of  plan. 

3.  The  first  court-house,  erected  in  1737,  stood  near  the  easterly 
corner  of  the  present  court-house  lot,  south  of  and  about  opposite  the 
present  court-house  fountain.  The  present  court-house  is  the  fourth 
building  erected  on  that  lot  for  court  uses. 

4.  The  first  school-house,  used  exclusively  for  school  purposes, 
stood  on  the  easterly  portion  of  Meeting-house  hill,  easterly  of  the  site 
of  the  present  court-house  and  farther  down  the  hill,  near  the  corner  of 
court-house  lot. 

5.  The  first  store  on  Shop  Row  stood  on  the  site  of  the  present 
drug-stores  of  Charles  B.  Kingsley  and  Lucius  S.  Davis,  built  in  1769 
by  Dr.  Ebenezer  Hunt  for  a  drug-store. 

6.  Jonathan  Edwards  preached  here  in  two  meeting-houses;  he 
was  settled  in  1727,  and  the  first  house  in  which  he  preached  was  re- 
placed by  the  one  shown  in  the  picture  in  1737.  This  house  stood  in 
Main  street,  opposite  the  westerly  half  of  the  present  First  Church  and 
entrance  to  Center  street.  It  faced  toward  Bridge  street.  There  were 
three  entrances,  one  in  front  (east)  and  one  on  each  side  (south  and  west). 
There  were  three  aisles  running  north  and  south,  and  one  on  each  side 
running  east  and  west.  The  pulpit  was  in  the  center  on  the  north  side, 
with  a  single  stairway  to  it  on  the  west  side.  Hanging  over  the  pulpit 
was  a  large  "sounding-board,"  which  bore  the  date  "1735,"  denoting 
the  date  of  the  first  vote  to  build.  Two  stairways  led  to  the  gallery,  in 
the  easterly  and  westerly  corners.  There  was  a  tall  steeple,  with  an 
open  belfry,  resting  on  eight  posts.  Surmounting  the  steeple  was  a 
weather-vane,  representing  a  rooster.  A  tower  clock  was  put  in  soon 
after  the  house  was  erected.  The  house  was  torn  down  in  181 2.  This 
Jonathan  Edwards  meeting-house  was  built  while  the  old  meeting-house 
was  still  standing,  showing  that  they  did  not  occupy  the  same  spot ;  but 
they  were  near  each  other.  The  old  house  was  torn  down  in  1738,  the 
year  after  the  new  house  was  occupied. 

The  accompanying  picture  of  the  second  meeting-house  in  which 
Jonathan  Edwards  preached  is  believed  to  be  accurate.  It  was  made 
from  a  sketch  drawn  by  Architect  William  F.  Pratt  about  thirty  years 
ago.  The  dimensions  of  the  house  and  the  belfry  are  matters  of  town 
record,  as  are  also  the  porches.  The  rooster  weather-vane  on  the  top 
of  the  steeple  is  shown  just  as  it  was  when  Edwards  thundered  forth  his 
mighty  appeals  from  the  pulpit  within,  and  the  semi-circular  stepstone 
is  seen  in  front  just  as  it  was  when  placed  there  167  years  ago.  The 
house  was  similar  in  form  to  the  Congregational  meeting-houses  built  in 
that  period;  there  is  one  much  like  it  still  standing  in  West  Springfield. 
Mr.  Pratt  was  aided  in  his  drawing  by  some  of  the  citizens  of  the  town 


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who  were  familiar  with  the  appearance  of  the  house  in  their  youth,  and 
they  pronounced  the  sketch  correct.  It  corresponds  with  the  plan  of 
seating  the  meeting-house  given  in  Trumbull's  History.  There  can  be 
no  doubt  that  when  you  look  at  this  picture  you  see  the  meeting-house 
substantially  as  it  appeared  when  Jonathan  Edwards  and  Major  Joseph 
Hawley  entered  its  portals  and  walked  through  its  broad  aisle. 


The     Jonathan     Edwards     M  i-:  e  i  i  n  g  -  H  o  u  s  e 
In  which  he  preacheil.        Built  in  1737.        Torn  <lovvn  1812 


7.     The  house  of  the  first  minister  of  the  town,  Rev.  Eleazar  Mather, 
stood  on  the  west  corner  of  Main  and  Pleasant  streets,  and  fronted  on 


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Pleasant  street.      Mr.  Mather  owned  all  the  land  now  covered  by  Shop 
Row  as  far  west  as  Merritt  Clark's  store. 

8.  The  first  town-house  (used  also  for  the  courts)  stood  on  the 
present  court-house  lot,  erected  1737. 

9.  The  first  post-office  (1792)  was  kept  in  the  store  of  Robert 
Breciv  &  Son,  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  King  streets,  where  the  First 
National  Bank  now  stands.  Col.  John  Breck,  son  of  Robert  Breck,  was 
the  first  postmaster. 

10.  The  first  newspaper,  the  Hampshire  Gazette,  was  printed  (1786) 
in  the  back  part  of  Benjamin  Prescott's  house,  on  the  west  corner  of 
Main  and  Pleasant  streets. 


East     Corner     ]\Iai\     and     King     Streets,     1855 
Where  First  National  Bank  now  stands 

11.  The  first  bookstore  in  town  was  opened  in  1797  by  Simeon 
Butler,  on  Shop  Row,  where  S.  E.  Bridgman  &  Co.'s  bookstore  now 
stands,  and  there  has  been  a  bookstore  on  that  spot  ever  since. 

12.  The  site  of  the  store  of  Phelps  &  Gare,  jewelers,  on  Shop  Row, 
was  in  1785  occupied  by  Samuel  Stiles,  a  goldsmith,  and  there  has  been 
a  goldsmith's  shop  on  that  spot  ever  since.  The  late  General  Benjamin 
E.  Cook  was  in  business  there  from  Jan.  10,  1827,  until  his  death,  Feb. 
25,   1900,  more  than  seventy-three  years. 

13.  The  first  bank  in  town,  the  Northampton  Bank,  was  opened 
in  1803,  on  the  site  of  Merritt  Clark's  store  on  Shop  Row.  It  was  suc- 
ceeded in  18 13  by  the  Hampshire  Bank. 


358  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

14.  The  first  ferry  between  Northampton  and  Hadley  was  estab- 
Hshed  in  1661,  when  Hadley  was  settled.  This  ferry  connected  Hadley 
at  the  lower  end  of  Front  street  with  "Old  Rainbow,"  and  for  many 
years  it  was  known  as  "Goodman's  ferry." 

15.  The  first  bridge  over  the  Connecticut  river  here  was  built  in 
1808.     The  present  county  bridge  (the  fifth)  was  built  in  1878. 

16.  The  first  Edwards  Church  (1833)  stood  on  the  easterly  corner 
of  Main  and  South  streets,  where  Columbian  block  now  stands.  It  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1870. 

17.  The  first  taverns  were  called  "ordinaries."  There  was  a  tav- 
ern on  the  site  of  the  present  Mansion  House  kept  by  Col.  Seth  Pomeroy, 
and  after  him  by  his  son,  Asahel  Pomeroy,  and  a  tavern  has  been  kept 
there  ever  since.  There  was  a  tavern,  known  as  the  "Red  Tavern," 
on  the  site  of  the  present  Catholic  church.  Also,  one  on  Hawley  street, 
east  side,  where  the  Washburn  House  now  stands,  kept  by  Capt.  Samuel 
Clarke;  one  on  the  southerly  corner  of  Pleasant  and  River  streets,  called 
the  "American  House";  one  on  South  street,  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Col.  Calvin  Strong  house,  corner  of  South  and  Fort  streets;  one  on  the 
west  corner  of  North  Elm  street  and  the  street  leading  to  the  car  barns, 
kept  by  Abner  Hunt;  one  in  Florence,  opposite  the  present  Florence 
Hotel,  kept  by  Paul  Strong,  and  known  as  "Paul  Strong's";  one  about 
a  mile  to  the  west  on  the  road  to  Williamsburg,  kept  by  Solomon  Warner, 
known  as  "Sol  Warner's";  one  farther  on,  half  a  mile  east  of  Haydenville, 
on  the  old  road  to  Northampton,  kept  by  Capt.  Samuel  Fairfield;  one  at 
Roberts  Meadow,  on  the  turnpike  road  to  Pittsfield,  kept  by  Nathaniel 
Edwards,  who  took  the  turnpike  tolls;  and  a  number  of  others  of  lesser 
note  in  different  parts  of  the  town. 

18.  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard,  minister  of  the  town  from  1672  to 
1729  (fifty-seven  years),  lived  on  Prospect  street,  where  Henry  R. 
Hinckley  now  lives.  His  son.  Col.  John  Stoddard,  succeeded  him  in 
occupying  that  place.  Mr.  Stoddard,  Senior,  built  in  1684  the  ell  part 
of  Mr.  Hinckley's  house  as  it  now  stands,  and  Col.  John  Stoddard  built 
the  main  part.  This  is  one  of  the  oldest  houses  in  town,  as  it  dates 
back  about  two  hundred  years,  and  a  part  of  it  two  hundred  and  twenty 
years. 

A  home  lot  was  granted  by  the  town  to  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard  in 
1 68 1.  It  contained  four  acres  of  land,  and  was  situated  on  the  east  side 
of  Round  Hill,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  junction  of  Henshaw  avenue  and 
Crescent  street.  Mr.  Stoddard  never  built  on  it,  but  three  years  later  he 
bought  another  lot,  a  little  south  of  the  grant,  and  there  he  built.  He 
and  his  descendants  occupied  this  house  for  more  than  a  century.  The 
central  portion  of  the  house,  as  it  now  stands,  is  all  that  remains  of  the 
home  of  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard.  The  large  gambrel-roofed  building, 
in  front  of  and  adjoining  this,  was  built  by  his  son.  Col.  John  Stoddard. 
The   rear   part   of  the   house,   built   by    Rev.    Solomon  Stoddard,  was 


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359 


removed  by  Dr.  Barrett,  and  made  into  the  barn  now  on  the  place. 
Dr.  Barrett  also  built  the  ell  in  the  rear  of  the  present  building. 

Close  to  the  central  chimney  of  the  ancient  house  was  a  large  open 
space,  under  the  floor  of  the  second  story,  which,  tradition  has  it,  was 
used  as  a  hiding  place  from  the  Indians.  This  place  no  longer  exists. 
In  May,  1809,  this  house  was  sold  to  Seth  Wright  of  Boston,  and  it  de- 
scended to  his  son,  Theodore  Wright.  It  was  purchased  in  1837  by 
Charles  C.  Nichols  of  Boston.  In  1845,  it  was  bought  by  Dr.  Benjamin 
Barrett  and  is  now  occupied  by  his  daughter  and  her  husband,  Henry 
R.  Hincklev. 


Residence  of  Henrv  R.  Hinckley,  Prospect  St 

Rear  part  of  this  house  was  built  by  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard  in  1684, 
and  front  part  by  his  son,  Col.  John  Stoddard 


The  accompanying  picture  presents  a  fine  view  of  the  house  as  it 
stands  today.  Col.  Stoddard  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  the 
town,  and  wealthy  for  his  times.  This  accounts  for  the  size  and  elegance 
of  the  main  structure.  The  house  stands  on  one  of  the  most  command- 
ing residence  sites  in  the  town,  and  is  a  treasure,  both  for  the  beauty  of 
its  location  and  for  its  historical  associations. 

19.  Rev.  Dr.  Gordon  Hall,  pastor  of  Edwards  church  twenty- 
eight  years,  lived  in  the  brick  house  on  the  south  side  of  Elm  street, 
opposite  entrance  to  Prospect  street,  aow  occupied  by  Miss  Tucker,  No. 


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84.     This  house  was  owned  and  occupied  in  1780  by  Gen.  WiUiam  Ly- 
man, a  Revolutionary  officer  and  member  of  congress. 

20.  Rev.  Solomon  Williams,  fifth  minister,  1778  to  1834  (fifty-six 
years),  lived  on  King  street,  where  his  son.  Deacon  Eliphalet  Williams, 
lived.  This  was  also  the  residence  of  Rev.  John  Hooker,  fourth  minister 
of  the  town. 

21.  Judge  Joseph  Lyman  lived  on  Main  street,  where  the  Carr 
block  and  Carr  bakery  now  stand.  House  was  built  in  1792,  succeeding 
one  that  stood  there  and  was  burned  in  that  year,  and  occupied  by  Col. 
William  Lyman. 


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Built  1792.     Burned  1870.     Stood  where  Carr  block  now  stands 


2  2.  Gov.  Caleb  Strong  (Governor  eleven  years  and  U.  S.  Senator) 
lived  on  Main  street,  where  the  Hampshire  House  now  stands;  his 
gambrel-roofed  house  was  removed  to  Pleasant  street  in  1844,  where  it 
was  occupied  by  his  son,  Hon.  Lewis  Strong;  now  No.  40. 

23.  Judge  Samuel  Henshaw  lived  on  Elm  street,  in  the  gambrel- 
roofed  house  lately  owned  and  occupied  by  Sidney  E.  Bridgman  and 
now  owned  by  Bishop  F.  D.  Huntington. 

24.  The  Warner  House,  one  of  the  leading  historical  structures  of 
the  town,  was  for  several  generations  the  principal  tavern.  Gen.  Seth 
Pomeroy  lived  there  and  kept  an  inn.      His  son,  Asahel  Pomeroy,  one  of 


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361 


the  prominent  men  of  his  times,  succeeded  him.  In  1792  Asahel  Pome- 
roy  erected  the  house  which  for  more  than  two  generations  was  one  of  the 
most  famiHar  objects  in  town.  The  old  house  that  stood  on  the  same 
spot  was  destroyed  by  fire,  Oct.  12,  1792.  Mr.  Pomeroy  immediately 
rebuilt.  In  182 1,  he  sold  the  house  to  Oliver  Warner,  who  had  kept  a 
tavern  on  the  Bridge  road,  half  a  mile  north  of  Florence,  where  Seth  S. 
Warner  now  lives.  Mr.  Warner  owned  and  conducted  the  tavern 
twentv-four  years,  until  his  death  in  1853.  From  him  the  house  took 
its  name.  Next  to  the  "Old  Church"  and  the  court-house,  the  Warner 
House  was  the  most  famous  structure  in  town.  There,  many  public 
gatherings  were  held;  there,  many  of  the  judges,  lawyers  and  jurors 


W  .-v  R  N  E  R     House 

Built  by^Asahel  Pomeroy,  1792.     Destroyed  by  fire,  1870.     Stood'on  site^of 
Mansion  (now  Draper)  House 


stopped  when  the  courts  were  in  session;  there,  travellers  from  far  and 
near  found  a  congenial  home;  and  there,  the  villagers  repaired  from 
time  to  time  to  gather  the  news  brought  in  by  the  stage-drivers  and  the 
guests  of  the  house. 

25.  "Fort  Hill,"  off  South  street,  takes  its  name  from  the  building 
of  an  Indian  fort  there  prior  to  1670.  The  exact  location  of  this  fort  is 
not  known.  "Dwight's  Travels"  says  it  was  located  "in  the  heart  of 
the  town,  at  a  distance  perhaps  of  thirty  rods  from  the  most  populous 
street."  This  would  locate  it  on  Fort  street,  on  the  brow  of  the  hill. 
Trumbull's  History  locates  it  "back  of  the  Starkweather  place."    It  was 


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abandoned  as  a  fort  in  1670.     The  Indians  who  built  it  were  friendly, 
and  were  given  permission  by  the  town  to  build  the  fort. 

26.  Gen.  Seth  Pomeroy,  besides  keeping  a  tavern,  was  a  black- 
smith, and  his  blacksmith  shop  stood  between  his  house  and  the  corner 
of  Main  and  Center  streets. 

27.  Dr.  Sylves- 
ter Graham,  origi- 
nator of  the  Gra- 
ham dietic  system, 
1  ved  on  Pleasant 
street,  in  the  brick 
house,  west  side, 
now  No.  61.  Hon. 
Eh  P.  Ashmun,  U. 
S.  Senator,  lived  in 
that  house  before 
Dr.  Graham. 

28.  E  r  a  St  us 
Hopkins,  ten  years 
a  representative  in 
the  state  legisla- 
ture, lived  on  King 
street,  house  next 
north  of  the  French 
Catholic  church. 

29.  Thomas  Na- 
pier lived  on  Elm 
street,  in  the  house 
that  now  forms  a 
part  of  the  Mary  A. 
Burnham  classical 
school  for  girls. 
Another  building 
used  by  this  school 
is  the  colonial- 
front  house  on 
Prospect  street, 
built  by  Judge 
Samuel  Howe  and 
in  which  he  lived. 

30.  Samuel  Whitmarsh  built  the  house  on  Fort  Hill,  since  owned 
and  occupied  as  a  summer  residence  by  Edward  H.  R.  Lyman  and  his 
son,  Frank  Lyman.  His  brother,  Thomas  Whitmarsh,  built  the  house 
lately  owned  and  occupied  by  Lucien  B.  Williams  and  now  by  his  son, 
Col.  Henry  L.  Williams. 


The     Jonathan     Edwards     Elm 

Set  Iby  Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards,  1730.     House  of  Josiah  D.Whit- 
ney  on   the    right    stands   on    site   of   the   Edwards   house. 
Picture  shows  house  and  tree  as  they  were  in  1890. 


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31.  John  Clarke,  founder  of  Clarke  Institute  for  Deaf  Mutes,  lived 
on  Bridge  street;  house  now  forms  a  part  of  Norwood  Hotel. 

32.  Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards  lived  on  King  street,  where  the  brick 
house  built  by  Josiah  D.  Whitney  now  stands,  and  the  large  elm  tree 
that  stands  in  front  is  one  of  two  elms  set  by  him  and  long  known  as 
the  "Jonathan  Edw^ards  elms."  A  picture  of  one  of  these  elms  is  given 
herewith. 

^^.  "  Bartlett's  gate,"  at  the  foot  of  Pleasant  street,  in  use  when  the 
meadows  were  fenced  in,  was  near  the  present  Harlow  house. 

34.  Judge  Charles  A.  Dewey,  judge  of  Massachusetts  Supreme 
court,  lived  on  College  Hill,  where  President  Seelye's  house  now  stands; 
house  was  moved  back  and  converted  into  a  dormitory,  and  is  now 
known  as  the  "Dewey  House." 

35.  Judge  Samuel  F.  Lyman,  judge  of  Probate  court,  lived  on 
College  Hill,  wdiere  the  principal  college  building  now  stands;  house  was 
moved  to  Canal  street,  and  is  now  No.  35. 

36.  Major  Joseph  Hawley  lived  on  Hawley  street,  on  site  of  house 
now  104,  known  as  the  "Burrows  place."  His  house  was  a  low  building; 
the  front  door  was  fastened  with  a  wooden  latch  and  a  leather  latch- 
st-ring  hung  outside. 

37.  Isaac  C.  Bates,  U.  S.  Senator,  lived  on  Bridge  street,  where 
the  J.  Stebbins  Lathrop  house  now  stands;  his  house  was  removed  to 
North  street,  and  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mrs.  Henry  Roberts. 

38.  Samuel  Bartlett  built  a  gristmill  in  1667  on  the  west  side  of 
Manhan  river  in  what  is  now  Easthampton,  and  Joseph  Parsons  had  a 
sawmill  on  the  opposite  shore.  There  have  been  grist  and  sawmills 
there  ever  since. 

39.  Halligan  and  Dailey  were  hung,  June  5,  1806,  on  "Gallows 
Plain,"  now  Hospital  Hill,  in  presence  of  15,000  people;  Gen.  Ebenezer 
Mattoon  of  Amherst,  high  sheriff,  officiated. 

40.  The  "pound,"  for  impounding  stray  animals,  was  at  the  lower 
end  of  Pleasant  street,  and  is  still  ow^ned  by  the  city,  though  not  used 
in  the  last  fifty  years. 

41.  The  semi-circular  stepstone  used  at  the  east  entrance  to  the 
meeting-house  in  which  Jonathan  Edwards  preached,  is  now  in  use  at 
the  front  entrance  to  Christopher  Clarke's  house.  No.  40,  Hawley  street. 

42.  Stocks  for  punishing  criminals  stood  at  the  junction  of  Main 
and  King  streets.     They  were  not  much  used. 

43.  Guideboards,  set  in  triangular  form  on  three  posts,  stood  in 
the  fork  of  the  roads  at  the  junction  of  Main  and  King  streets,  and  a 
little  north  of  these  guideboards  were  two  large  elm  trees,  underneath 
which  were  for  many  years  a  set  of  hay  scales  for  public  use. 


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44.  Just  below  the  old  South-street  bridge  over  Mill  river  there 
was  a  crossing  on  the  bed  of  the  river,  called  the  "  Lickingwater  crossing." 
The  banks  of  the  river  on  either  side  sloped  gently  to  the  edges  of  the 
stream,  and  this  was  the  principal  public  watering  place  in  town  for 
about  two  hundred  years.  It  was  closed  to  the  public  when  the  dike 
was  built  in  1856. 

45.  The  "Oxbow,"  known  in  later  years  as  the  "Old  Bed,"  was 
until  1840  the  route  of  the  Connecticut  river.  In  that  year  the  high 
water  in  a  spring  freshet  cut  across  the  narrow  neck  east  of  the  railroad 
and  formed  the  present  channel  of  the  river.  In  going  four  and  a  half 
miles  by  a  direct  line  the  river  by  the  "Oxbow"  route  ran  nearly  eleven 
miles. 


Olu     Mansion     House,     on     College     Hill 

Where  Catholic  church  now  stands.     As  it  appeared  when  kept  by  Capt.  Jonathan 
Brewster,  1840.     Hotel  barn  in  the  rear 

46.  The  storehouse  for  freight  sent  and  received  on  the  New  Haven 
and  Northampton  canal  is  still  standing  and  is  used  by  Warren's  livery 
stable.  The  canal  ran  under  Main  street  beneath  an  arched  stone  bridge 
and  came  close  to  this  storehouse.  The  shed  now  seen  on  the  east  side 
was  not  there  when  the  canal  was  in  use.  The  three  iron  hooks  under 
the  eaves  used  for  hoisting  and  lowering  freight  are  there  now. 

47.  This  canal  was  carried  across  Mill  river  by  means  o*:"  an  aque- 
duct, and  ran  along  the  side  of  the  hill  west  of  South  street.  The  canal 
was  opened  for  business  in  1836,  and  closed  in  1847.  It  cost  $980,000, 
all  of  which  was  a  total  loss. 


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48.  The  first  jail  in  town  was  built  in  1707  and  stood  on  the  corner 
of  Main  and  South  streets,  near  where  Rahar's  Inn  now  stands.  It  was 
sold  in  1760,  and  for  twelve  years  there  was  no  jail  here.  In  1773  a 
jail  was  built  of  logs  on  Pleasant  street.  The  notorious  Ste])hen  Bur- 
roughs of  Pelham  was  confined  there  in  1786  and  was  chained  to  the 
floor  after  attempting  to  break  out.  In  1801,  a  new  jail,  built  of  stone, 
was  erected  on  the  site  of  the  old  one,  and  in  1853  the  present  jail  on 
Union  street  was  completed. 

49.  Shepherd's  Island  in  the  Connecticut  river  below  "Old  Rain- 
bow" began  to  form  about  1729.  In  1754  it  contained  six  or  seven 
acres,  about  half  of  which  was  fit  for  cultivation.  It  was  formed  by 
accumulations  of  soil  and  sand  brought  down  by  the  spring  freshets. 
It  was  sold  at  "public  vendue"  in  1770  by  order  of  the  legislature,  and 
purchased  by  Solomon  Stoddard  for  one  hundred  pounds.  In  1803, 
Levi  Shepherd,  Jr.,  bought  it  for  $1,200,  and  it  has  since  been  known  as 
"Shepherd's  Island."  It  now  contains  about  fifteen  acres  and  is  owned 
by  the  Mount  Tom  Lumber  Co.  The  money  paid  for  it  in  1803  went  to 
the  county  and  was  used  to  build  a  bridge  in  Ware. 

50.  The  first  mill  in  town  was  a  gristmill,  built  in  1658  ;  it  stood  on 
the  north  bank  of  Mill  river,  just  west  of  the  gas-works. 

51.  The  "Hunt  house,"  a  fine  old  gambrel-roofed  structure,  stood 
on  Main  street,  east  of  the  first  Edwards  Church,  where  the  Hampshire 
County  Bank  building  now  stands.  It  was  built  by  Deacon  Ebenezer 
Hunt  in  1770  and  stood  exactly  one  hundred  years,  being  destroyed  by 
fire  in  1870.  In  it  lived  three  generations  of  Hunts — Deacon  Ebenezer 
Hunt,  Dr.  Ebenezer  Hunt,  and  Dr.  David  Hunt. 

52.  Mill  river  originally  ran  around  the  foot  of  Fort  Hill  and  emp- 
tied into  "Danks's  pond,"  near  the  lower  end  of  South  street.  It  was 
changed  to  run  from  lower  Pleasant  street  directly  to  the  Connecticut 
river  in  17 10.  In  digging  wells  in  Maple  street,  near  the  round  house 
built  by  Seth  Strong,  large  logs  were  found  at  a  depth  of  twelve  to  fifteen 
feet  and  bright  gravel,  showing  that  the  river  once  ran  at  that  place. 
There  are  two  channels  of  the  river  still  visible  near  the  foot  of  High 
street. 

53.  Elwell's  Island,  just  above  the  Connecticut  river  bridges,  took 
its  name  from  Levi  Elwell,  who  lived  near  it.  It  began  to  form  about 
seventy  years  ago,  and  for  some  years  was  only  a  sand-bar.  Mr.  Elwell 
used  to  put  willow  twigs  in  the  edges  of  the  banks  on  the  upper  side  and 
that  caused  the  sand-bar  to  enlarge.  He  was  the  first  man  to  plant 
anything  on  this  island.  It  now  contains  about  twenty-five  acres  of 
land  suitable  for  cultivation,  most  of  which  is  in  grass.  A  ferry-boat  is 
used  to  convey  teams  and  the  crops  by  means  of  a  wire.  The  island  is 
owned  by  Frank  R.  Elwell  and  Spencer  Clark. 

54.  A  small  park,  oblong  in  shape,  about  125  by  40  feet,  was  made 
in  Main  street  in  1844,  of  soil  taken  from  the  Governor  Strong  lot  when 


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the  Connecticut  river  railroad  was  built.  Elm  and  maple  trees  were 
set  in  it,  a  low  railing  enclosed  it,  and  a  flagstaff  stood  in  the  middle. 
Its  center  was  opposite  the  west  entrance  to  the  old  savings  bank.  It 
was  made  by  the  contributions  of  the  Shop  Row  merchants  and  others. 
In  1867,  the  town  having  outgrown  its  presence,  it  was  removed  by  order 
of  the  selectmen. 

55.  The  first  burials  in  town  were  made  on  Meeting-house  hill, 
and  in  1662  the  burial  ground  was  established  on  the  "Plain,"  near 
Bridge  street,  where  it  has  remained  ever  since. 


Edwards  Church  and  Hunt  House 

On  East  corner  Main  an<l  Old  South  streets,  where  Columbian  Block  now  stanfls  —  House 

built  by  Deacon  Ebenezer  Hunt  in  1770,  burnel  1870  —  Church  built  1833, 

burned  1870  —  Merritt  Clark's  store  on  the  left. 


56.  The  present  Main  street  along  Shop  Row  did  not  begin  to 
assume  its  present  shape  until  1769.  The  principal  road  to  the  top  of 
"Meeting-house  hill  "  was  on  the  northerly  side,  in  the  rear  of  the  present 
court-house.     The  hill  was  quite  abrupt  on  the  easterly  side. 

57.  Judge  Forbes  had  his  office  and  living  rooms  on  the  third  floor 
of  Judge  Sterling's  block,  next  west  of  the  First  Church,  over  the  bank- 
ing rooms  of  the  Northampton  Bank  and  Northampton  Institution  for 
Savings.     He  boarded  at  the  Warner  House. 


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367 


58.  In  September,  1675,  "two  men  were  shot  and  scalped  by  Indians 
near  their  homes  in  Paradise,  while  chopping  wood. 

59.  In  the  early  years  of  the  town's  settlement  the  meadows  were 
fenced  in  and  used  in  the  late  season  as  a  "common  field"  for  pasturing. 
The  fence  ran  from  the  present  Connecticut  river  bridge  along  the  bluffs 
off  Bridge  street  to  South-street  bridge,  and  thence  to  the  outlet  of  Man- 
han  river  at  the  base  of  Mount  Tom. 

60.  The  high  school  for  boys  stood  where  the  present  Center-street 
grammar  school  now  stands.  For  many  years  it  was  the  only  building 
on  the  ground  between  Main  and  Park  streets  and  Gothic  and  State 
streets. 

61.  In  October  of 
the  year  1675  a  body 
of  Indians  attacked 
seven  or  eight  men  who 
were  at  work  in  Pyn- 
chon  meadow;  the  men 
escaped  and  one  In- 
dian was  shot  and  kill- 
ed. The  Indians  then 
attacked  the  settlers 
on  Sotith  street,  burn- 
ing four  houses  and 
four  barns.  These 
houses  stood  on  what 
is  now  known  as  the 
Starkweather  place, 
the  two  home-lots  to 
the  south,  and  one  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the 
-  road. 

The     Great     Elm     Tree 


In  Middle  Meadow,  its  trunk  31  feet  in  circumference 


62.  At  the  foot  of 
Pleasant  street,  on  the 
northerly  side  of  the 
road,  a  little  west  of  the  railroad,  stood  the  freight-hotise  of  Capt.  David 
Strong.  Freight  was  brought  up  Mill  river  in  times  of  high  water. 
When  the  water  was  low  the  freight  came  to  Hockanum  ferry,  and  there 
was  a  freight  house  on  the  west  bank.  David  Strong  and  his  son, 
David  Strong,  Jr.,  were  the  captains.  Most  of  the  freight  to  Northamp- 
ton came  by  boat  from  Boston  to  Hartford,  thence  up  the  Connecticut 
river,  through  the  canal  at  South  Hadley  Falls.  This  boating  business 
disappeared  about  1840.  The  old  freight-house  on  Pleasant  street  re- 
mained there  many  years  afterward.  It  was  a  long,  low  wooden  build- 
ing, facing  lengthwise  to  the  street,  and  stood  close  to  the  street. 


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63.  The  bank  robbers,  Robert  Scott  and  James  Dunlap,  used  the 
attic  of  one  of  the  two  one-story  brick  school-houses  that  stood  near  the 
Bridge-street  entrance  to  the  cemetery,  as  their  rendezvous  while  plan- 
ning the  robbery  of  the  Northampton  National  Bank  in  January,  1876. 
On  the  night  of  the  26th  they  entered  the  house  of  Cashier  John  Whit- 
telsey  on  Elm  street,  now  No.  184,  bound  and  gagged  the  inmates  and 
tortured  the  cashier.  The  bank  which  they  robbed  of  securities  valued 
at  $1,500,000  was  in  Judge  Sterling's  block,  on  the  west  corner  of  Main 
and  Center  streets.  The  plunder  from  the  bank  was  secreted  in  the 
school-house  in  which  the  robbers  had  secreted  themselves,  where  it 
remained  for  about  two  weeks,  when  the  robbers  returned  and  carried 
it  off  by  way  of  Amherst. 

64.  In  1677  the  meeting-house  was  ordered  to  be  fortified,  and  it 
was  surrounded  with  a  line  of  palisades  similar  to  that  which  enclosed 
the  central  part  of  the  town. 

65.  Southampton  was  the  first  part  of  the  original  town  of  North- 
ampton to  be  set  off.  It  was  incorporated  as  the  "First  Precinct"  in 
1741.  Its  first  minister  was  Rev.  Jonathan  Judd,  settled  in  1743;  died 
in  1803,  after  a  pastorate  of  sixty  years.  The  first  meeting-house  was 
erected  in  1752,  and  stood  thirty-six  years. 

66.  Westhampton  was  incorporated  as  a  town  in  1778.  The  first 
minister  was  Rev.  Enoch  Hale,  settled  in  1778;  he  died  in  1837,  in  the 
fifty-eighth  year  of  his  pastorate.  The  first  meeting-house  was  erected 
in  1784. 

67.  Easthampton  became  a  town  in  1785.  Its  first  minister  was 
Rev.  Payson  WilHston,  settled  in  1789,  retired  in  1833  after  a  ministry 
of  forty-four  years,  and  died  in  1856,  aged  ninety-two  years.  The  first 
church  was  organized  in  1785,  and  the  first  meeting-house  erected  the 
same  vear;  the  house  stood  fifty-one  years.  Williston  seminary  was 
opened  in  1841,  and  the  first  button  factory  in  town  was  built  in  1848. 

68.  The  first  bridge  over  Mill  river  at  the  "  Lickingwater  crossing" 
was  built  in  1673.  It  was  repaired  and  improved  in  1698  and  a  new 
bridge  built  in  1794.  In  1842  a  covered  bridge  was  erected.  This 
bridge  remained  in  use  until  the  new  boulevard  bridge  was  built  in  1891, 
when  it  went  to  decav  and  was  partly  consumed  by  an  incendiary  fire 
on  the  night  preceding  a  4th  of  July. 

69.  On  May  13,  1704,  occurred  the  great  massacre  at  Pascommuck. 
Early  in  the  morning  a  body  of  French  and  Indians  attacked  the  settle- 
ment of  five  families  between  Mount  Tom  and  the  Manhan  river  near  its 
outlet  into  the  Connecticut.  The  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  were  easily 
overpowered  and  thirty-seven  of  them  were  taken  captive.  Capt.  John 
Taylor,  who  with  a  troop  of  horsemen  pursued  the  Indians,  overtook 
them  a  few  miles  to  the  south  on  their  way  to  Westfield.  The  Indians 
then  killed  all  but  half  a  dozen  of  the  captives.     Captain  Taylor  was 


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shot  and  killed.  He  left  a  wife  and  eleven  children.  His  house  was 
on  the  lot  afterward  occupied  by  the  Judge  Joseph  Lyman  homestead 
on  our  Main  street. 

70.  A  palisade,  made  of  strong  stakes  driven  into  the  ground,  was 
erected  about  the  most  thickly  settled  part  of  the  town  in  1675,  for  pro- 
tection against  the  Indians.  This  pahsade  was  assaulted  a  few  months 
after  it  was  built.  At  daybreak  on  the  morning  of  March  13,  1676,  a 
body  of  Indians,  estimated  to  number  500,  fell  upon  the  settlement  from 
the  north.  They  broke  through  the  palisade  at  lower  Pleasant  street. 
One  house  was  burned  within  the  fortifications  and  four  houses  outside. 
There  was  a  garrison  of  seventy-eight  men  inside,  and  such  resistance 
was  made  that  the  Indians  soon  retreated.  Four  settlers  and  a  girl  were 
killed,  and  fifteen  to  twentv  Indians. 


Edwin     K  i  n  g  s  l  e  v     House     a  x  d     Blacksmith     Shop 

House  on  the  right  buih  1792,  torn  down  1850.     Holley  House  and  Hat  Factory  on  the  left. 
Kingsley  House  and  Blacksmith  Shop  stood  where  Academy  of  Music  now  stands 

71.  A  sawmill  was  built  in  Leeds,  then  called  the  "Rail  Hill  dis- 
trict," in  1800.  In  1808  a  cotton  mill  took  its  place.  In  1812,  Col. 
James  Shepherd  erected  a  woolen  mill  below  the  cotton  mill  and  the 
latter  was  soon  connected  with  it.  The  place  was  then  for  forty  years 
known  as  "Shepherd's  Hollow."  The  Northampton  Woolen  Manu- 
facturing Co.  succeeded  and  Stephen  Brewer  and  Thomas  Musgrave  were 
successively  its  agents.  Henry  Clay  stopped  at  this  mill  when  he  visited 
Northampton  in  1833  and  was  presented  with  a  roll  of  broadcloth  made 
by  this  company  as  a  sample  of  the  product  of  American  industry. 
Leeds  is  now  one  of  the  centers  of  the  Nonotuck  Silk  Manufacturing 
Co.'s  industries. 


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72.  In  1680  the  town  ordered  the  pahsades  to  be  repaired,  and 
in  1689  they  were  enlarged.  The  town  ordered  that  married  persons 
should  build  three  rods  of  palisade  each,  and  single  persons  two  rods. 
The  western  line  of  this  fortification  ran  from  the  rear  of  the  principal 
college  building  and  President  Seelye's  house  to  Miss  Tucker's  (formerly 
Rev.  Gordon  Hall's),  thence  to  Henshaw  avenue,  and  thence  to  the  west 
of  H.  R.  Hinckley's  house  on  Prospect  street.  It  probably  inclosed 
West  street  and  extended  easterly  as  far  as  the  burial  ground.  Its 
length  was  over  two  miles. 


Old     Wright     House 
On  Bridge  street,  built  1658,  the  oldest  house  in  town 


73.  The  house  shown  in  the  above  picture  is  believed  to  be  the 
oldest  house  now  standing  in  Northampton.  It  has  been  altered  since 
it  was  built  by  the  addition  of  two  side  wings  and  a  change  in  the  roof 
in  the  rear,  which  originally  sloped  nearly  to  the  ground.  It  stands 
on  what  was  a  part  of  the  home-lot  of  Cornet  Joseph  Parsons,  which 
embraced  all  the  land  between  Bridge  and  Market  streets  that  fronted 
on  Bridge  street  on  the  south.  It  was  built  in  1658  by  Mr.  Parsons  soon 
after  his  arrival  in  town,  and  it  is  supposed  that  he  kept  an  inn  there, 
as  he  was  licensed  to  keep  a  house  of  entertainment.  It  was  held  in 
the  Parsons  family  until  1807,  when  it  passed  into  the  possession  of 
Daniel  Wright  and  his  wife,  Chloe  Lyman,  and  has  remained  in  posses- 
sion of  their  descendants  ever  since.     Daniel  Wright  was  postmaster  of 


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371 


the  town  twenty-five  3'ears,  and  his  son,  Ferdinand  Hunt  Wright,  who 
succeeded  his  father  in  occupying  the  house,  also  served  as  postmaster 
and  was  the  first  cashier  of  the  Hampshire  Bank.  His  daughter,  Miss 
Anna  Wright,  now  occupies  the  house. 

74.  The  streets  of  the  town  did  not  bear  their  present  names  un- 
til 1826,  when  they  were  named  by  a  committee  appointed  by  the  town. 
Some  of  them  had  been  designated  by  the  name  of  some  prominent 
resident  on  the  street,  and  others  bore  nicknames.  Hawley  street  went 
by  the  name  of  "Pudding  lane";  Elm  street  was  called  "New  Boston"; 
West  street  to  Hospital  Hill  bore  the  name  of  "Welch  End";  Pleasant 


The     C  h  a  u  n  c  e  y     E  .     Parsons     House 
On  Bridge  street,  built  1744,  occupied  by  the  Parsons  family  160  years 


street  bore  the  name  of  the  gate-keeper,  "Bartlett's  lane";  South  street 
was  called  " Lickingwater " ;  and  Park  street  "Stoddard's  lane."  Other 
localities  were  known  by  such  names  as  these :  North  Elm  street  as 
"Abner  Hunt's";  Florence  as  "Paul  Strong's";  fork  of  the  roads  to 
Leeds  and  Williamsburg  as  "Sol  Warner's";  near  Williamsburg  line 
east  of  Haydenville  as  "Cap'n  Fairfield's";  Roberts  Meadow  as  "Nat 
Edwards's";  Leeds  as  "Shepherd's  Hollow,"  and  before  that  as  "Rail 
Hih." 

75.     A  gristmill  was  built  on  the  east   side   of   Mill   river,   where 
Maynard's  hoe-shop  now  stands,  in  1677,  and  a  road  opened  to  it.     This 


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was  called  the  "Upper  Mill,"  and  the  mill  below  was  called  the  "Lower 
Mill."  These  names  were  in  common  use  for  two  hundred  years.  Some 
years  later  a  gristmill  and  a  sawmill  were  built  on  the  west  bank  of  the 
"Upper  Mill"  waterfall  and  a  bridge  leading  to  them  was  built  below 
the  dam. 

76.  The  house  of  Chauncey  E.  Parsons,  shown  in  the  picture, 
stands  on  the  westerly  side  of  Bridge  street,  facing  the  Common,  and 
was  built  by  Isaac  Parsons  in  1 744,  the  year  of  his  marriage.  It  has  been 
occupied  by  Isaac  Parsons,  Josiah  Parsons,  Lyman  Parsons  and  Chaun- 
cey E.  Parsons.  There  has  been  no  material  change  in  the  house  since 
its  erection  160  years  ago,  and  only  descendants  of  the  builder  and  first 
occupant  have  ever  lived  in  it.  It  stands  on  what  was  originally  a 
part  of  the  farm  of  Cornet  Joseph  Parsons,  purchased  by  him  in  1674, 
and  extended  from  Bridge  street  to  Market  street.  The  farm  has 
been  owned  and  occupied  by  Parsons  families  230  years. 

77.  The  town  was  without  a  bell  in  the  meeting-house  for  thirty- 
six  years.  Meetings  had  been  announced  by  the  use  of  a  drum  or 
trumpet. 

78.  In  the  years  around  1850  the  water-cure  treatment  was  much 
in  vogue  here.  Dr.  Charles  Munde,  a  German,  had  a  water-cure  estab- 
lishment in  Florence,  west  of  Mill  river,  opposite  the  brush  factory;  he 
was  preceded  there  by  Dr.  David  Ruggles,  a  blind  colored  man,  who 
opened  the  establishment  in  1845  and  died  in  1849.  The  water-cure 
buildings  were  destroyed  by  fire  Nov.  7,  1865.  Dr.  Halsted  had  an 
extensive  water-cure  establishment  on  Round  Hill,  occupying  all  of  the 
then  existing  buildings  north  of  the  Clarke  Institute  buildings;  and  Dr. 
Edward  E.  Denniston  had  a  large  establishment  on  the  west  corner  of 
North  Elm  street,  at  the  junction  with  Prospect  street,  where  Abner 
Hunt  lived  seventy-five  years  ago. 

79.  The  first  paper  mill  in  towm,  which  was  the  first  manufactory 
here  of  any  importance,  was  built  by  William  Butler,  founder  of  the 
Hampshire  Gazette.  It  was  located  where  the  Rogers  cutlery  works 
now  stand,  at  the  westerly  end  of  Vernon  street,  in  what  has  since  been 
known  as  "Paper-mill  Village."  Mr.  Butler  made  there  by  hand  all 
the  paper  used  in  printing  the  Gazette.  As  the  publication  of  the  Gazette 
was  begun  Sept.  6,  1786,  it  is  probable  that  the  paper  mill  was  started 
soon  after  that  time.  In  181 7,  Mr.  Butler  sold  the  mill  to  his  brother, 
Daniel  Butler,  who  kept  a  store  under  the  printing  office  on  Pleasant 
street.  He  carried  on  the  mill  until  his  death  in  1849,  when  it  passed 
into  the  control  of  William  Clark,  who,  with  his  sons  William  and 
Lucius,  ran  it  many  years,  doing  a  large  and  profitable  business.  Will- 
iam Butler  erected'  a  two-story  building  for  his  printing  office  on  the 
east  side  of  Pleasant  street.  That  building  still  stands,  much  as  it  was 
built  one  hundred  and  eighteen  years  ago.  It  stands  directly  opposite 
Cook's  block,  now  occupied  by  the  Warner  Furniture  Co. 


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80.  On  the  east  side  of  Bridge  street,  just  north  of  the  Josiah  Par- 
sons house,  stood  a  small  brick  powder  house.  It  was  built  bv  John 
Clarke,  who  sold  powder,  and  was  used  for  storing  that  dangerous 
commodity.     It  was  not  much  in  use  after  1850. 

81.  The  picture  of  the  Parsons  house  on  South  street,  near  the 
old  bridge,  shows  one  of  the  oldest  houses  in  town.  It  was  built  in  1755 
by  Noah  Parsons,  Jr.,  son  of  Noah  Parsons,  who  settled  there  in  17 12. 
The  house  is  now  about  as  it  was  when  built  149  years  ago.  There  have 
been  none  but  members  of  the  Parsons  family  living  on  this  homestead 


The     Lewis     Parsons     House 
On  South  street,  built  in  1755,  and  occupied  by  its  builder  and  his  descendants  149  years 


for  192  years.  First  was  Noah  Parsons,  then  successively  Noah  Parsons, 
Jr.,  Justus  Parsons,  Lewis  Parsons,  and  the  present  occupant,  Lewis  D. 
Parsons.  The  stately  elm  that  stands  in  front  of  the  house  was  set  in 
1755,  the  year  of  his  marriage  and  the  A^ear  that  the  house  was  built, 
by  Noah  Parsons,  Jr.  It  has  stood  there  149  years.  Originally  theie 
was  quite  a  ravine  running  in  front  of  this  house  just  west  of  the  elm 
tree  and  leading  to  the  river ;  this  ravine  was  partly  filled  when  the  dike 
was  built  in  1856  and  entirely  filled  and  the  common  graded  in  1883. 


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82.  The  lead  mines  in  the  west  part  of  the  town,  near  Loudville, 
were  discovered  in  1678  by  Robert  Lyman,  a  hunter.  These  mines 
created  considerable  interest  in  town  for  many  years,  and  many  votes 
relating  to  them  are  on  the  town  records.  A  mining  company  was  formed 
in  1679;  two  Boston  men  became  interested,  and  something  was  done 
in  working  the  mines,  but  they  never  yielded  any  profit.  In  1863  the 
mines  came  into  the  control  of  Thomas  E.  Hastings  and  C.  W.  Elton, 
who  made  considerable  stir  there  for  about  two  years,  ending  in  failure 
and  bankruptcy, 

83.  The  first  railroad  to  this  town,  the  Connecticut  River  road, 
was  opened  in  December,  1845.  I^o^  0^6  year  cars  were  run  only  to 
Northampton;  the  next  year  the  road  was  opened  to  Greenfield,  and  in 
1849  the  road  was  extended  to  the  Vermont  line.  The  second  railroad 
to  this  town,  "the  Canal  road,"  was  opened  in  1855.  The  branch  line 
to  Wilhamsburg  was  opened  in  1867.  The  Massachusetts  Central  road 
was  opened  in  1887. 

84.  There  was  a  brick  cannon  house  near  the  school-houses  on 
Bridge  street,  used  for  storing  the  cannon  belonging  to  the  Northampton 
artillery  company.  It  stood  a  little  to  the  west  of  the  Bridge-street 
entrance  to  the  cemetery.     It  was  there  in  1840  and  1850. 

85.  The  first  brickyard  in  town  was  west  of  King  street  and  be- 
tween Court  and  Park  streets,  opened  in  1658.  Another  brickyard  was 
opened  in  1684  at  the  southerly  end  of  South  street,  near  where  there  is 
one  now. 

86.  The  first  innkeeper  in  town  was  John  Webb,  a  blacksmith, 
hunter  and  land  speculator.  His  house  stood  on  the  west  corner  of 
Main  and  South  streets. 

87.  The  first  court  here  was  held  March  24,  1658.  Regular  sessions 
began  in  1661. 

88.  The  present  City  Hall  was  completed  in  1850.  The  gas-works 
were  ready  for  business  in  1856.  The  water-works  were  constructed  in 
187 1.  The  Northampton  dike,  inclosing  Maple  and  Fruit  streets,  was 
built  in  1856.  The  first  street  railway  was  opened  here  in  1866.  The 
Hampshire,  Franklin  and  Hampden  Agricultural  Society  was  organized 
Jan.  22,  1818,  and  the  first  cattle  show  held  Oct.  14  and  15  of  the  same 
year.  The  building  of  the  Northampton  Lunatic  Hospital  was  begun 
in  1856  and  completed  in  1858.  The  Smith  Charities  were  established 
by  the  will  of  Oliver  Smith  of  Hatfield  in  1845.  The  Clarke 
Institution  for  Deaf  Mutes  was  established  by  John  Clarke  in 
1867.  The  first  public  library  in  town  was  begun  in  1839  with  the  for- 
mation of  a  "Book  club,"  and  from  that  have  grown  the  two  great 
libraries  founded  by  John  Clarke  and  Judge  Forbes.  The  first  savings 
bank  in  town,  the  Northampton  Institution  for  Savings,  was  organized 
Oct.    I,    1842.     The   Round   Hill   School   for  boys   was   established  by 


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George  Bancroft  and  Joseph  G.  Cogswell  in  1823  and  continued  in  exist- 
ence fifteen  years,  having  at  one  time  two  hundred  pupils.  A  law 
school  was  opened  here  in  1823  by  Elijah  H.  Mills  and  Judge  Samuel 
Howe,  in  the  Lyman  block,  next  west  of  the  Warner  House,  continuing 
six  or  seven  years.  General  Louis  Kossuth,  the  distinguished  Hunga- 
rian exile,  visited  this  town  in  April,  1852,  and  was  given  a  reception  in 
the  Old  Church;  Hon.  Lewis  Strong- presided  and  the  church  was  crowd- 
ed. Jenny  Lind,  the  noted  singer  from  Sweden,  came  here  in  185 1 
and  gave  a  concert  in  the  Old  Church  on  the  night  before  the  4th  of 
July.     Again,  after  her  mariiage  in  1852,  she  visited  Northampton  and 


O  L  ij     1'  o  w  N      Hall 

On  Court-house  Park,  built  1814,  torn  down  1870.     Stood  on  a  line  with  Court-house  and 
Old  Church.     Basement  used  by  Hook  and  Ladder  Company.     Public  hay- 
scales  between  the  two  elm  trees 

gave  a  conceit  in  the  town  hall,  the  proceeds  of  $937  going  to  various 
local  objects. 

89.  The  first  stage  to  this  town  began  to  run  in  August,  1792, 
when  the  post-office  was  established.  The  line  ran  from  Springfield 
to  Dartmouth,  N.  H.  The  stage  going  north  came  once  a  week,  arriv- 
ing here  Monday  evening,  going  as  far  as  Brattleboro,  where  it  met  a 
stage  line  from  Dartmouth;  exchanging  passengers  the  stage  to  Spring- 
field arrived  here  on  Thursday.  A  stage  line  to  and  from  Boston  was 
established  in  July,   1793. 

90.  Round  Hill  received  its  name  from  its  shape.  The  first  house 
built  on  its  summit  was  erected  by  Thomas  Shepherd  in  1803,  and  soon 


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afterward  his  brother,  Levi  Shepherd,  erected  the  house  next,  to  the 
north.  The  fourth  house  was  built  by  Cob  James  Shepherd.  These 
four  houses  stood  there  in  1823,  when  they  were  sold  to  Joseph  G.  Cogs- 
well and  George  Bancroft  for  their  Round  Hill  School  for  boys. 

91.  The  Tontine  building  was  in  its  day  a  structure  of  note.  It 
stood  on  the  easterly  corner  of  Bridge  and  Hawley  streets,  fronted  two 
hundred  feet  on  Bridge  street  and  one  hundred  on  Hawley,  and  was 
three  stories  high.      It  was  used  for  shops  by  various  mechanics  and  had 


r-| 


» I? 


Old     C  l  .^  r  k  e     Block,     Shop     R  o  w 

Takt:}i  /rovi  a  lutsi)tess  card  of  18^0 

This  picture  represients  the  brick  store  built  by  Samuel  t'larke  in  1818.  It  stood  on  the  site  of 
the  present  Clarke  block.  The  i>icture  is  the  only  accurate  rei;)resentation  of  any  portion  of  Shop 
Row  as  it  existed  previous  to  1850,  that  is  now  in  existence.  Augustus  Clarke  was  a  .son  of  Samuel 
Clarke,  and  succeeded  his  father  in  trade  in  this  store  in  1838.  The  picture  shows  the  store  as  it 
was  in  1840.  It  was  at  that  time  the  most  easterly  store  on  Shop  Row,  the  building  below  it  being 
the  dwelling-house  of  Theodore  Strong,  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Pleasant  streets.  The  business 
of  this  store  was  that  of  the  usual  country  variety  store,  or  "  department  store"  of  modern  times. 


a  dancing  hall  in  the  third  story.  It  was  erected  in  1786.  There  must 
have  been  a  "high  old  time"  when  the  frame  was  raised,  judging  by  the 
supplies  furnished.  There  were  eighteen  gallons  of  rum,  four  gallons  of 
brandy,  thirty  pounds  of  loaf  sugar,  three  pounds  of  brown  sugar, 
ninetv-nine  pounds  of  beef,  thirty-six  pounds  of  veal,  Capt.  Clarke's 
bill  of  five  pounds,  eight  shillings  (probably  for  more  rum,  as  he  kept  a 
tavern  in  the  Washburn  House  close  by),  and  cake  and  cheese.  The 
building  was  burned  in   1816. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Q2.  Sylvester  Judd,  antiquarian,  historian,  compiler  of  the  Judd 
manuscripts,  editor  of  Hanipsliirc  Gazette  twelve  years,  author  of  "  Judd's 
History  of  Hadley,"  lived  on  the  west  corner  of  Elm  street  and  Paradise 
road. 

93.  June  14,  1825,  Gen.  Lafayette  came  to  Northampton  and  was 
given  a  roval  reception.  He  came  from  Pittsfield  over  the  mountains 
and  was  met  at  Roberts  Meadow  by  Hon.  Joseph  Lyman,  sheriff  of  the 
count V,  and  a  committee  of  citizens,  a  bodv  of  cavalrv,  and  a  number  of 
citizens,  and  escorted  to  upper  Elm  street,  where  several  militarv  com- 
panies were  ready  to  greet  him.  The  procession  came  into  town  amid 
the  noise  of  cannon. and  a  demonstration  of  joy  rarely  witnessed.  The 
General  alighted  at  the  Warner  House,  where  he  was  introduced  to  the 
selectmen.  Then  followed  a  general  reception  in  Main  street  bv  the 
people  of  the  town.  The  school  children  were  out  to  greet  him  and 
flowers  were  strewn  in  his  pathway.  Then  he  stopped  at  the  meeting- 
house, where  he  was  introduced  to  a  large  number  of  ladies.  Then  came 
a  reception  and  dinner  at  the  Warner  House,  Elijah  H.  Mills  presiding. 
At  two  o'clock  the  General  started  for  Boston,  being  escorted  to  the 
Connecticut  river  by  the  same  procession  that  escorted  him  into  tow^n. 

94.  These  names  were  given  to  sections  of  the  meadows  by  the 
first  settlers:  "Old  Rainbow"  and  "Young  Rainbow"  to  the  section 
along  the  Connecticut  river  west  of  Shepherd's  Island;  "Walnut  Trees," 
south  of  "Young  Rainbow";  "Venturer's  Field,"  from  "Walnut  Trees" 
to  Pomeroy  Terrace;  above  "Venturer's  Field"  up  to  the  bridge  was 
called  "Last  Division";  on  the  river  opposite  Shepherd's  Island  was 
"Bark  Wigwam";  following  the  Connecticut  to  the  mouth  of  Mill  river 
was  "Middle  Meadow";  between  "Middle  Meadow"  on  the  south  and 
"Walnut  Trees"  and  "Venturer's  Field"  on  the  north  were  "First," 
"Second"  and  "Third  Sqtiares";  "Manhan  Meadow,"  named  from 
Manhan  river,  embraced  all  now  bounded  bv  Mill  river  on  the  east,  the 
"Old  Bed"  on  the  south,  and  Fort  Hill  on'the  west;  "Hog's  Bladder" 
lay  south  of  the  "Old  Bed";  "Pynchon's  Meadow"  (120  acres)  was 
north  of  Hulbert's  (since  known  as  Danks's)  Pond.  These  names  are 
still  retained  in  common  use. 

95.  Henry  Clay  visited  Northampton  in  1833.  He  was  then  a 
U.  S.  Senator  from  Kentucky  and  came  here  with  his  wife  on  a  tour  of 
the  country.  He  was  met  in  Springfield  by  a  committee  from  Northamp- 
ton, headed  by  Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates,  and  escorted  into  town  by  a  caval- 
cade of  citizens.  They  stopped  at  the  Mansion  House,  and  Mr.  Clay 
attended  the  services  in  the  "Old  Church"  on  Sunday  morning  and  at 
the  Unitarian  Church  in  the  afternoon  The  next  morning  he  started 
for  Pittsfield,  passing  through  "Shepherd's  Hollow,"  where  the  opera- 
tives in  the  woolen  mill  were  drawn  up  in  line  to  greet  him.  Thence  on 
through  Roberts  Meadow,  past  "Nat  Edwardses,"  over  the  turnpike, 
through  Worthington,  Peru  and  Pittsfield,  to  Albany. 


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JsAAC  Geke,  Goldsmith  Jemima  Kingsley  Gere 

From  oil  paintings  made  in   the  year   ISOO 

96.  Isaac  Gere,  whose  portrait  appears  herewith,  built  the  first 
brick  store  in  Northampton,  in  1808.  It  stood  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Northampton  National  Bank  building,  and  was  then  "directly  opposite 
the  meeting-houss."  After  his  death,  in  181 2,  it  was  sold  to  John 
Clarke,  who  carried  on  his  business  there  until  1846.  Mr.  Gere  came 
here  from  Preston,  Conn.,  in  1793,  and  began  business  for  himself  in 
1794.  He  was  a  veiy  successful  man.  The  original  pictures,  three  by 
four  feet,  painted  in  1800,  show  distinctly  the  dress  of  that  time  — 
ruffled  shirt  bosom,  buff  vest,  knee  breeches,  silk  stockings  and 
powdered  hair.  In  the  picture  Mr.  Gere  looks  Hke  an  elderly  man, 
because  of  his  powdered  hair,  but  he  was  only  twenty-nine  years  of  age 
when  his  portrait  was  painted  and  only  forty  when  he  died.  His  wife 
was  the  seventh  of  the  nin^  daughters  of  Enos  Kingsley,  who  lived  in 
the  house  on  South  sticet,  where  his  descendant,  Prof.  George  Kingsley, 
lived,  shown  on  page  379  of  this  book.  When  her  portrait  was  painted 
she  was  onlv  twentv  vears  of  age.  These  pictures  are  fiom  the  oldest 
oil  paintings  reproduced  in  this  volume. 

97.  Florence  has  had  a  surprising  growth.  The  first  settler  there 
was  Joseph  Warner,  near  the  fork  of  the  road  to  the  great  bridge,  and 
none  but  Warners  have  ever  lived  there.  In  181 2  there  were  only  seven 
houses  in  the  place,  and  as  late  as  1847  the  number  had  increased  to 
only  about  a  dozen.  The  manufacture  of  silk  was  one  of  the  first  enter- 
prises in  the  place,  and  to  that  industry  Florence  owes  its  prosperity. 


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The  mulberrv  speculation  of  1835  to  1845  was  not  without  good  results, 
as  it  created  Florence.  The  then  hamlet  was  one  vast  mulberry  field; 
400  to  500  acres  of  land  were  devoted  to  mulberry  culture,  under  the 
lead  of  Samuel  Whitmarsh.  The  bubble  burst,  but  its  germ  lived,  and 
one  of  the  most  flourishing  of  New  England  villages  is  the  result. 

98.  Cider  mills  were  common  after  apple  trees  came  into  general 
cultivation.  There  was  one  in  1840  at  the  entrance  to  Paradise  road, 
owned  bv  Ansel  Jewett.  The  last  of  these  mills  near  the  center  was  at 
the  South  end  of  South  street,  run  by  Curtis  W.  Braman. 

99.  Smith  College,  though  not  an  ancient  historical  institution, 
deserves  mention  here.      It  stands  on  historical  ground  of  great  interest, 


Residence 


F     Prof.     George     K  i  n  c;  s  l  e  y 


Cornsr  Old  Siath  Streat   and  Mill  Lane  —  House  stood  where  New  South  Street 

now  runs 


where  Lieutenant  William  Clark  built  his  log  house  in  1659.  It  was 
founded  by  Miss  Sophia  Smith  of  Hatfield  in  1870,  with  an  endowment 
of  $386,608,  to  which  the  town  of  Northampton  added  $25,000.  The 
college  was  dedicated  July  14,  1875.  The  first  entering  class  numbered 
thirteen.  The  college  has  grown  with  astonishing  rapidity  until  the 
present  number  of  students  is  upward  of  eleven  hundred.  Financially, 
also,  the  college  has  been  remarkably  successful  and  that  with  only  a 
few  gifts  from  appreciative  friends.  President  L.  Clark  Seelye  has  been 
the  head  of  the  institution  from  the  beginning,  and  to  his  superior 
counsel,  far-seeing  wisdom  and  rare  executive  abilities  the  college  owes 
very  much  of  its  remarkable  prosperity. 


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100.  The  "Old  Church."  There  have  been  twenty  meeting-houses 
built  in  Northampton,  four  of  which  have  been  destroyed  by  fire,  but  no 
one  of  them  has  taken  so  deep  a  hold  of  the  hearts  of  the  people  as  the 
"Old  Church"  of  1812-1876.  That  old  meeting-house  became  a  part 
of  the  life  of  the  town.  It  was  the  center  around  which  all  else  revolved. 
It  was  affectionately  called  the  "Old  Church."  No  other  building  in 
town  was  so  much  admired,  none  other  so  much  loved.  It  was  a  beau- 
tiful specimen  of  architecture,  and  many  and  sad  were  the  hearts  that 
witnessed  its  destruction  by  fire  in  the  afternoon  of  June  27,  1876. 

10 1.  In  the  last  sixty  years  the  center  of  the  town  has  been  almost 
J       wholly  changed.     Hardly  a  building  remains  just  as  it  was  in   1844. 

With  three  or  four  exceptions,  every  church  edifice,  every  public  build- 
ing, every  store  and  shop,  and  every  house,  on  Main  street,  have  been 
entirely  rebuilt  and  enlarged,  or  altered  so  as  to  lose  their  old-time 
appearance.  The  exceptions  are  the  Holley  house  and  barn,  canal 
storehouse.  Dr.  Higbee's  house,  and  Butler's  old  printing  office  and 
store  building  on  the  east  side  of  Pleasant  street.  Dr.  Higbee's  house 
has  been  modernized  in  its  appearance  so  that  George  Bennett,  its  old- 
time  occupant,  would  hardly  recognize  it,  and  an  addition  has  been 
made  to  the  east  side  of  the  canal  storehouse.  George  Bancroft,  the 
historian  and  founder  of  the  Round  Hill  School,  should  he  walk  these 
streets  again,  would  not  know  where  he  was.  The  old  landmarks,  once 
so  familiar  to  him,  have  disappeared;  and  the  people,  his  associates  in 
the  years  of  his  prime,  who  listened  with  so  much  pleasure  to  the 
charm  of  his  elociuence,  they  also  are  gone. 


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OLD     TIMES 


O   call  back  yesterday,  bid  Time  return! 

Shakespeare 


'Tis   greatly   wise   to   talk   with   our  past   hours. 

Young 


Tell   me   the   tales   that   to   me   were   so   dear, 
Long,   long   ago;    long,   long   ago. 

Thomas  Hayxes  Bayly 


I   love   everything   that's   old — old   friends, 
Old   times,   old   manners,   old   books,   old   wine. 

Goldsmith 


How   cruelly   sweet   are   the   echoes   that   start 
When   memory   plays   an   old   tune   on   the   heart. 

Eliza  Cook 


Oft   in   the   stilly   night, 

Ere   slumber's   chain   has   bound   me, 
Fond   meni'ry   brings   the   light 

Of   other   days   around   me  ! 

Thomas  Moore 


There  are  no  times  like  the  old  times — they  shall  never  be  forgot! 
There  is  no  place  like  the  old  place — keep  green  the  dear  old  spot ! 
There   are   no    friends   like   the   old    friends  —  may    Heaven   prolong 
their  lives  ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 


THE      HISTORICAL       COLLECTIONS 


\u\W\   \nscv»\iu«n 


IT  WAS  recognized  very  early  in  the  plans  for  the  Celebration  that, 
to  make  a  success,  the  historical  collection  was  of  first  importance ; 
no'  only  because  there  existed  a  wealth  of  antiquities  pertaining 
to  the  town's  first  :ettlement,  still  in  the  possession  of  Hneal  descend- 
ants of  the  original  famihes  in  the  valley,  but  also  because  the  exhi- 
bition of  these  relics  would  constitute  about  the  only  substantial  evi- 
dence for  justifying  the  Celebration. 

To  properly  cover  this  field,  a  special 
committee  of  twenty-two  was  nominated  by 
the  Celebration  Committee  of  fifteen  and 
appointed  by  the  city  government,  and  in- 
cluded Thomas  M.  Shepherd  as  designated 
chairman  of  the  committee. 

This  committee,  recognizing  the  peculiar 
significance  of  this  department  of  the  Cele- 
bration, desired  to  avoid  what  might  be 
called  only  a  loan  exhibition  of  antiques, 
having  possibly  little  or  no  historic  bearing, 
and  to  direct  all  efforts  to  a  more  dignified 
and  higher  purpose.  Their  two  great  aims 
were,  firstly,  to  illustrate  the  religious,  social, 
political  and  business  character  of  the  early 
settlers,  as  might  be  shown  by  the  existing 
possessions,  arranged  in  an  attractive  man- 
ner; and,  secondly,  to  secure,  if  possible, 
the  loan  of  authentic  heirlooms,  documents 
and  articles,  relating  to  the  settlement  of  the 
town  itself,  during  its  early  stages  of  develop- 
ment and  the  collection  of  articles  which 
belonged  to  or  were  associated  with  noted  local  personages. 

In  order  to  insure  unity  of  action  and  to  guard  against  wasted 
effort,  the  committee  unanimously  adopted,  at  the  first  meeting,  a 
detailed  plan,  devised  by  the  chairman,  whereby  they  divided  them- 
selves into  five  sub-committees,  of  information,  exhibition,  solicita- 
tion, transportation,  and  protection,  a  few  members  of  each  commit- 
tee being  responsible  for  that  committee's  work,  yet  each  member 
being  liable  to  be  called  upon  for  active  work,  and  each  committee 
reporting  their  actions   and  requests  to  the  general  chairman. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  383 

The  sub-committ  e  of  information  sought  to  gain  all  possible  in- 
formation regarding  the  whereabouts  of  the  relics  desired,  and  report 
them  to  the  committee  on  solicitation.  They  were  also  expected  to 
give  information  regarding  these  articles  to  the  visitors.  John  L. 
Mather  was  chairman  and  he  was  assisted  by  Prof.  Mary  A.  Jordan 
and  Prof.  Harry  N.  Gardiner. 

Seth  S.  Warner  was  chairman  of  the  solicitation  committee,  and, 
assisted  by  Miss  Harriet  J.  Kneeland,  Miss  Nancy  L.  Miller  and 
Mrs.  Gertrude  Quimby  Clapp,  direct  appeal  was  made  to  the  owners 
of  articles  desired.  Few  persons  can  realize  the  large  amount  of  pa- 
tience, judgment,  tact  and  time  required  in  this  department,  unless 
they  have  been  in  a  similar  position,  for  the  owners  of  many  of  the 
valuable  relics  desired  were  extremely  unwilling  to  remove  them  from 
their  time-honored  positions,  and  risk  their  loss  in  the  required  transit. 

To  counteract  this  objection  a  system  was  devised  by  the  general 
chairman,  whereby  a  receipt  was  handed  to  the  owners  of  articles, 
on  removal  to  the  place  of  exhibition,  to  be  surrendered  again  upon 
their  return.  This  was  carried  out  by  means  of  a  specially  prepared 
coupon  book,  which  furnished  a  receipt  for  the  owner,  a  coupon  to 
be  fastened  to  the  article,  and  a  record  of  the  article  itself,  for  the 
information  of  the  exhibition  committee. 

This  objection  was  still  further  removed  by  the  labor  of  Dr. 
Osmore  O.  Roberts,  Henry  N.  Ferry  of  the  protection  committee, 
and  others,  who  sought  in  every  w^ay  to  guard  the  relics  from  fire  and 
theft,  both  bv  ample  fire  insurance  and  special  watchmen  from  the 
fire  department  dav  and  night,  by  private  detectives,  and  by  limiting 
attendance  at  any  one  time  to  fifty  people. 

In  order  to  prevent  possible  handling  of  these  exhibits  by  dis- 
honest people,  a  strict  rule  was  made  that  no  one,  not  even  the  com- 
mittee themselves,  was  to  be  allowed  to  touch  the  articles,  during  the 
hours  of  exhibition. 

Frank  I.  Washburn  principally,  assisted  by  William  F.  Pratt  and 
Robert  E.  Edwards,  arranged  for  the  careful  transportation  of  the 
relics  and  their  return.  The  very  careful  services  of  George  W.  Wade 
and  other  employes  greatly  facilitated  their  labors. 

The  committee  of  exhibition  arranged  the  collection  itself,  in  the 
appropriate  setting  provided.  Great  credit  is  deservedly  given  to  the 
verv  efficient  chairman,  Mrs.  Gertrude  Quimby  Clapp,  for  the  appro- 


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priate  selection  of  the  articles  best  suited  to  represent  the  setting  of 
the  old-time  rooms,  in  which  work  she  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  David 
W.  Crafts.  Miss  Adelene  Moffat,  Miss  Harriet  L.  Clapp,  Miss  Mary 
St.  John  Willcox  and  others. 

To  the  good  judgment,  tact,  earnestness  and  self-denying  labor 
of  all  the  actii'c  members  of  these  committees  the  people  are  indebted 
for  the  success  of  the  whole  exhibition. 

The  collection  was  appropriately  housed  in  the  Boise  (and  Bell) 
homestead  on  Gothic  street,  an  old  colonial  homestead,  recently  ac- 
quired and  generously  loaned  by  the  woman's  department  of  the  Home 
Culture  Clubs  of  the  city,  as  part  of  their  contribution  to  the  Celebra- 
tion, and  certainly  the  attractive  old  mansion,  with  its  white  painted 
pillars  and  porticos,  standing  on  a  slight  eminence,  above  the  street, 
and  easily  found,  was  a  fit  repository  for  the  treasures  it  contained. 

In  this  old  homestead  the 
exhibition  committee,  with 
much  good  taste,  arranged  the 
articles,  so  as  to  portray  the 
peculiar  customs  of  bygone 
days,  grouping  them  in  the 
appropriate  places  and  man- 
ner; so  that  visitors,  on  enter- 
ing the  doorway,  found  prac- 
tically the  facsimile  of  a  home 
of  the  olden  time.  On  the 
second  floor,  two  bedrooms, 
with  their  ancient  four-post 
beds  and  toilet  tables;  on  the 
first,  the  library,  two  parlors, 
dining-room  and  kitchen,  each 
equipped  with  unusual  completeness  and  appropriateness. 

It  is  evidently  impossible,  in  the  space  allotted,  to  adequately 
describe  or  even  mention  but  a  small  portion  of  this  large  and  beau- 
tiful collection.  Nearly  every  article  was  rare,  even  exceptional  of 
its  kind.  Some  were  delicate,  ornate  and  costly;  others  austere  and 
practical,  each  having  its  own  interesting  story  of  national  glory,  in 
peace  or  war,  of  domestic  privation,  industry  and  success. 

So  dearly  and  closely  are  these  relics  esteemed  that  it  was  almost 


0- 


Household  Arts  Building  of  Home  Culture 
Clubs,  on  Gothic  Street 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  385 

a  desecration  to  ask  even  the  temporary  loan,  under  all  the  safeguards 
provided,  and  only  with  evident  reluctance  and  after  earnest  solici- 
tation did  some  of  them  leave  the  owners'  hands. 

Who  could  relate  all  the  traditions,  sentiment  and  history  con- 
nected with  these  many  ancient  relics,  but  very  few  of  which  were  less 
than  loo  years  of  age?  Not  a  few  were  enveloped  with  those  charm- 
ing, misty  legends  of  tender  home  associations,  of  pride,  devotion, 
love,  all  sufficiently  true  today  to  find  many  believing  listeners,  glad 
to  circulate  and  possibly  magnify  the  interesting  tales. 

Many  phases  of  life,  many  arts  and  industries,  were  represented, 
ranging  from  the  little  piece  of  bed  ticking,  made  from  flax,  sown, 
grown,  hatcheled,  dyed  and  woven  in  the  town  of  Southampton,  to 
the  bluish  gray  satin  suit  worn  by  John  Huggerford,  at  the  Court  of 
England,  in  1774. 

There  were  first  attempts  at  family  portraitures,  antedating  the 
silhouette  and  the  daguerreotype  in  the  embroidered  "family  pieces." 
There  were  linen  pillow  slips,  showing  the  many  painstaking  stitches 
of  our  great-grandmothers;  relics  of  the  historical  characters  of  the 
town.  Major  Hawley's  desk  and  christening  robe.  Colonel  Porter's 
carving  set,  Judge  Henshaw's  buckles,  and  the  sermon  notes  of  that 
old-time  divine,  Rev.  Timothy  Edwards.  There  were  portraits  of 
famous  men,  from  Washington  and  Choate  to  local  celebrities,  like 
the  Trumbulls  and  Henshaws.  There  was  the  diary  of  Gen.  Seth 
Pomeroy,  and  pewter  tankards,  made  by  that  old-time  silversmith 
and  hero,  Paul  Revere,  Millennium  and  Pilgrim  plates,  now  almost 
worth  their  weight  in  gold,  a  cane  made  from  the  wood  of  the  old  church 
in  Deerfield,  with  its  tragic  associations  of  Indian  raids  and  mas- 
sacres, "highboys,"  "lowboys,"  Mayflower  tables,  Chippendale  and 
Hepple white  chairs,  and  old  oaken  brass-bound  chests,  and  many 
other  relics  and  examples  of  the  life  long  ago  faded  into  the  past. 

As  it  is  so  evidently  impossible  to  describe  all  these  many  interest- 
ing exhibits,  singly  and  with  detail,  in  the  space  allotted,  we  can  only 
list  briefly  the  general  catalogue  of  the  collection,  arranged  alphabet- 
ically and  according  to  ownership. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hubbard  M.  Abbott.  It  is  not  often  that  the 
receipts  for  articles  purchased  are  preserved  and  handed  down  in  the 
family  more  than  a  hundred  years,  but  the  authenticity  of  an  ancient 


386  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

pewter  tankard,  exhibited  by  Mrs.  Abbott,  was  thus  estabHshed,  for 
it  tells  us  that  it  was  bought  by  her  great-grandfather,  Samuel  Barker, 
in  1768,  and  cost  two  pounds  sterling.  Neither  is  it  probable  that 
little  Priscilla  Flynt  was  thinking  of  the  ultimate  destination  of  the 
sampler  which  she  so  laboriously  made  when  she  embroidered  upon 
it  her  name,  date  and  age,  just  nine  years  old,  in  1796.  Here,  too, 
were  the  slippers  belonging  to  the  wedding  outfit  of  another  ancestor, 
made  in  Lynn  in  1775;  and  also  an  embroidered  skirt  from  the  same 
exhibitor. 

Miss  Clara  C.  Allen.  A  "licquor  case,"  with  bottles  and  glasses 
used  in  travelling  many  years  ago.  These  were  imported  by  the 
Champlins  of  Newport,  ancestors  of  Miss  Allen,  and  bear  the  date  of 

1765- 

Miss  M.  Annette  Allen.  An  ancient  and  beautiful  mirror, 
framed  in  gilt  and  rosewood,  which  appears  in  the  photograph  of  the 
dining-room,  just  showing  through  the  open  door  of  the  library. 

Miss  Mary  T.  Allis.  Another  mirror,  which  is  said  to  have  once 
reflected  the  fair  face  of  that  belle  of  the  long  ago.  Miss  Polly  Pome- 
roy,  who  once  lived  in  the  old  colonial  house,  situated  where  the  Ma- 
sonic block  now  stands. 

Mrs.  Ann  W.  Alvord.  A  pitcher,  with  Governor  Strong's  por- 
trait upon  it,  exhibited  in  the  library. 

Lewis  F.  Babbitt.  The  Rev.  Timothy  Edwards  of  East  Wind- 
sor, Conn.,  lived  and  preached  at  a  period  when  sermons  were  lengthy 
dissertations  and  the  chief  requisite  of  a  minister  was  that  he  should 
be  a  good  sermonizer.  The  "Thumb  Notes"  that  this  old-time  parson 
used,  were  here  exhibited  by  his  descendants,  through  Anna  Edwards, 
one  of  his  ten  children  and  a  sister  of  Jonathan  Edwards,  the  famous 
metaphysician. 

Miss  Jane  F.  Bigelow.  The  Arts  and  Crafts  societies  are  now 
copying  the  patterns  and  colorings  of  the  old  blue  and  white  bed- 
spreads used  so  many  years  ago.  The  article  exhibited  by  Miss  Big- 
elow was  a  fine  example  of  the  lost  art  of  home  coloring,  of  a  time 
when  the  blue  dye  tub  was  a  household  institution.  This  spread  was 
used  to  cover  the  Mayflower  table  seen  in  the  photograph  of  the  back 
parlor.  She  also  exhibited  an  embroidered  picture,  which  can  be  seen 
in  the  illustration  hanging  near  the  spinnet. 

Miss  Clara  P.  Bodman.  Desirable  articles  from  a  collector's 
point  of  view  are  the  examples  of  illustrated  crockery  made  to  com- 
memorate notable  events,  in  the  early  part  of  the  19th  century.  Miss 
Bodman  had  here  some  choice  souvenirs  of  this  nature,  and  of  great 
commercial  value  now.  Among  them  were  a  Boston  State  House 
plate.  States  plate,  Mt.  Vernon  pitcher,  and  a  Lafayette-at-the-tomb- 
of-Franklin  teapot.  The  soup  tureen,  once  among  the  furnishings  of 
Polly    Pomeroy,  seen   in   the   picture   on   the    Mayflower   table    in    the 


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387 


dining-room,  was  also  included  in  this  collection  of  china.  She  also  ex- 
hibited a  lantern,  one  of  the  relics  of  the  handiwork  of  Paul  Revere. 
Perhaps  this  lantern  was  of  the  same  pattern  as  that  hung  in  the  bell- 
fry  of  the^  Old  North  Church,  by  William  Dawes,  on  that  notable  night 
of  long  ago,  when  Revere  went  galloping  down  through  Middlesex 
villages,  on  his  errand  of  warning.  The  foot-stove  and  warming-pan, 
also  in  Miss  Bodman's  collection,  well  showed  the  hardships  of  those 
days,  and,  contrasted  with  the  furnaces  and  hot-water  bags  of  the 
present,  seem  but  poor  comforts. 

Miss  Hannah  E.  Brewer.  Another  relic  of  the  Paul  Revere  days 
was  a  tankard  of  silver,  one  of  the  samples  of  his  handiwork  and  truly 
authentic,  for  his  name  was  embossed  upon  its  surface.  Miss  Brewer 
also  loaned  a  silver  pepper  pot  or  box,  said  to  be  over  175  years  old, 
and  made  by  that  hero  of  ancient  days.  In  the  parlor  was  hung  a 
portrait  of  Judge  Joseph  Lyman,  grandfather  of  Frank  Lyman. 

Charles  J.  Bridgman.  Portraits  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  Judd, 
ancestors  of  Mr.  Bridgman.  Mr.  Judd  is  said  to  have  built  the  old 
court-house.  These  portraits  hung  over  the  spinnet  in  the  parlor  and 
are  seen  in  the  photograph.  Also  two  ivory  miniatures  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Thomas  Bridgman,  his  grandparents. 

Miss  Sarah  M.  Butler.  Miss  Butler  exhibited,  besides  some 
ancient  candlesticks  and  salt  cellars,  an  army  commission  of  her  father, 
Jonathan  Hunt  Butler. 

William  A.  Champney.  A  reproduction  of  Stuart's  beautiful 
portrait  of  George  Washington. 

Haynes  H.  Chilson.  A  very  ancient  Chinese  plate,  once  owned 
by  Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates,  when  Senator  of  the  United  States  from  North- 
ampton. 

Mrs.  Gertrude  Quimby  Clapp. 
Both  Mrs.  Clapp  and  her  sister. 
Miss  Flora  Quimby,  exhibited  some 
interesting  articles,  which,  though 
not  all  of  strictly  local  interest, 
served  as  an  excellent  illustration 
of  the  early  period  represented 
by  this  exhibition.  Notable 
among  them  was  a  tea  urn,  made 
about  one  hundred  and  thirty 
years  ago,  of  copper,  silver  plated, 
a  method  of  manufacture  which  is 
being  revived  by  the  silversmiths 
of  today.  It  was  of  a  graceful 
shape  and  in  it  there  was  a  solid 
iron  plunger,  which  when  heated 
served  to  keep  the  beverage  warm. 
From  this  urn   tea  was  served  to 


Old    Portrait 


Lafayette 


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LAFAYETTE    IN    NORTHAMPTON— 1825 
From  a  very  old  wood  cut  illustmting  Lafayette  street  reception 


Lafayette  during  his  visit  to  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1825.  Mrs.  Clapp  and 
Miss  Quimby  also  sent  to  the  exihibtion,  mirrors,  table,  chairs,  etc., 
some  of  which  belonged  to  the  Cephas  Clapp  family,  and  which,  besides 
being  very  old,  helped  to  give  an  attractive  appearance  to  the  rooms 

Miss  Frances  A.  Clark. 
There  was  seen  in  the 
dining-room,  at  the  left 
hand  of  the  sideboard,  an 
ancient  platter  enclosed  in 
a  glass  case.  This  can  be 
noticed  in  the  photograph 
and  was  the  property  of 
Miss  Clark.  It  was  one  of 
the  wedding  presents  of 
her  great-grandmother  and 
is  said  to  be  150  years  old. 
Also,  a  program  of  one  of 
the  Jenny  Lind  concerts, 
and  one  of  those  ancient 
cane  swords,  which  seemed  to  be  a  cane  until  closer  inspection  revealed 
the  fact  that  there  was  a  sword  concealed  in  the  hollow  tube  of  the 
cane.  These  canes  were  used  in  Revolutionary  times,  from  which  this 
one  dated. 

Dr.  Sidney  A.  Clark.  Two  plates  of  much  value  among  the 
antiques.  One  was  of  the  Dr.  Syntax  pattern  and  the  other  repre- 
sented the  landing  of  Lafayette.  Dr.  Clark  also  loaned  several  other 
interesting  and  valuable  pieces. 

Misses  Julia  C.  and  Annie  B.  Clarke.  One  of  the  most  inter- 
esting exhibits.  In  the  picture  of  the  front  parlor,  at  the  left  hand 
side,  can  be  seen  Major  Hawley's  handsome  maple  desk,  and  upon 
it  are  placed  a  tea  caddy  and  china  bowl,  from  his  household  furnish- 
ings. The  curtains  hanging  near  it  were  originally  bed  curtains  and 
were  separated  over  one  hundred  years  ago.  One  was  handed  down 
in  the  Northampton  branch  of  the  family  and  the  other  became  the 
property  of  relatives  in  Plainfield  and  was  used  as  a  bedspread  and 
for  other  purposes.  At  last,  after  one  hundred  years  separation,  these 
two  curtains  were  brought  together  for  this  exhibition.  The  Misses 
Clarke  also  loaned  three  handsome  chairs,,  which  were  part  of  the  wed- 
ding presents  of  Anna  Barnard,  who  married  Joseph  Clarke,  grand- 
father of  the  present  owners,  and  who  died  in  1774.  He  was  the  nephew 
of  Major  Hawley's  wife,  and  was  named  for  and  adopted  by  Major 
Hawley. 

Mrs.  David  C.  Crafts.  Mrs.  Crafts  exhibited  a  large  collection 
of  ancient  and  valuable  china,  which  was  shown  in  the  cabinet  in 
the  dining-room      One  of  the  rarest  pieces  was  a  custard  cup  of  the 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  389 


Boston  State  House  pattern,  which  possessed  the  pecuhar  distinction 
of  an  unbroken  cover.  There  was  also  a  Herculaneum  platter,  a  Mt. 
Vernon  pitcher  and  a  Franklin  sugar  bowl.  Another  article  was  a 
sugar  bowl  made  of  the  old  Liverpool  ware,  very  seldom  seen,  as  the 
Liverpool  ware  was  made  of  poor  clay  and  hence  broke  easily.  There- 
fore its  rarity  now.  Besides  the  china  Mrs.  Crafts  loaned  a  sundial 
which  once  belonged  to  Amasa  Case  of  Bloomfield,  Conn.,  four  gener- 
ations back.  Opposite  Mr.  Case's  front  door  and  from  a  cherry  tree 
near  by,  there  hung  a  copper  bell,  which  was  rung  by  means  of  a  wire, 
for  five  minutes  each  day,  as  determined  by  the  sundial,  at  the  hour 
of  twelve  and  also  on  special  occasions.  But  as  the  sundial  refused 
to  work  on  cloudy  days,  there  was  then  no  bell,  and  the  neighborhood 
had  no  timepiece. 

Mrs.  Chester  H.  Dakin.  Mrs.  Dakin  gave  to  the  collection  a 
rare  and  beautiful  evidence  of  early  local  art  in  the  shape  of  a  powder 
horn.  These  powder  horns  were  made  from  the  horns  of  oxen,  first 
scraped  very  thin,  and  then  engraved.  The  light  showing  through 
the  thin  surface  of  the  horn  brought  out  the  engraving  and  made  the 
article  very  beautiful.  The  one  shown  was  a  fine  example  of  this  early 
species  of  art  work.  These  horns  were  the  only  means  of  carrying 
powder  in  those  days,  and  are  often  seen  in  the  illustrations  of  the 
battles  and  skirmishes  of  the  Revolution. 

Milton  E.  Daniels.  An  ancient  sofa,  seen  in  the  back  parlor, 
and  said  to  be  the  first  brought  to  the  town  of  Northampton. 

Mrs.  Milton  E.  Daniels.  One  of  the  three  objects  of  the  His- 
torical Collections  Committee  was  to  show  the  early  methods  of  sup- 
plying household  needs.  A  fine  example  of  this  were  the  spools  for 
winding  yarn,  called  "Swifts,"  which  were  loaned  by  Mrs.  Daniels. 

Mrs.  Henry  C.  Day.  Two  pair  of  brass  candlesticks,  one  of 
which  may  be  seen  in  the  photograph  of  the  front  parlor,  standing 
on  the  table. 

Lucius  Dimock.  An  oil  painting  representing  the  early  appear- 
ance of  Main  street,  at  the  corner  of  King  street. 

Miss  Fannie  W.  Edwards.  Pillowcases  belonging  to  Miss  Ed- 
wards' great-great-grandmother,  being  a  part  of  her  wedding  outfit, 
and  dating  from  1759. 

Miss  Mary  Ann  Edwards.  A  bead  bag  and  necklace,  samples 
of  the  early  beadwork  which  has  been  somewhat  revived  at  the  present 
day.     Also  some  china  plates. 

Robert  E.  Edwards.  A  number  of  years  ago  Dr.  William  Prince 
was  superintendent  at  the  Insane  Asylum,  and  at  that  time  purchased 
and  had,  in  his  rustic  cottage  on  Park  Hill,  the  fine  example  of  an  early 
style  of  table  which  shows  so  prominently  in  the  pictures  of  the  din- 
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who  called  it  a  Mayflower  table.  It  is  known  to  the  trade,  however, 
as  a  thousand-legged  table.  This,  which  later  came  into  the  possession 
of  Mr.  Edwards,  is  a  beautiful  specimen.  Another  interesting  exhibit 
was  a  water-color  picture,  painted  by  Mary  Ann  Gibbs,  a  member  of 
one  of  the  early  prominent  families  of  Blandford,  which  was  at  that 
time,  with  all  the  towns  in  Hampden,  Franklin  and  Berkshire,  a  part 
of  Hampshire  County.  Besides  these  Mr.  Edwards  sent  an  old  num- 
ber of  the  Hampshire  Gazette,  of  interest  and  value,  as  it  bore  the 
mourning  borders  for  the  death  of  George  Washington,  and  was  the 
first  issue  after  that  event.  Another  of  Mr.  Edwards'  exhibits  was 
the  handsome  mirror  which  hung  in  the  hall. 

The  Ferry-King  Collection. 

Mrs.  Henry  N.  Ferry.  Mrs.  Ferry  had  a  large  and  interesting 
collection,  which  also  contained  the  rarest  exhibit  of  the  whole,  and 
the  one  most  truly  representing  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Cel- 
ebration. This  was  the  cane  of  Capt.  John  King,  the  son  of  Sir  John 
King,  who  was  Secretary  of  Ireland  under  Queen  Elizabeth.  Captain 
King  came  over  from  England  and  settled  here  in  1655,  where  King 
street  now  is,  and  later  named  the  new  settlement  Northampton,  after 
his  old  home  in  England.  The  engraved  pewter-headed  cane  was 
carried  by  him  at  that  time,  and  was  truly  the  most  precious  relic 
of  the  whole  loan  collection.  It  was  procured  by  Mrs.  Ferry  of  the 
ninth  generation,  from  its  owner,  George  Warren  King  of  Middleport, 
N.  Y.,  another  descendant  of  the  old  captain,  who  generously  con- 
sented to  send  it  to  her  for  this  purpose.  Contemporary  in  point  of 
time  with  the  cane  was  an  Indian  war  club,  captured  from  the  ma- 
rauding tribes  by  Lieut.  John  King,  son  of  the  captain,  and  who  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  Deacon  Medad  Pomeroy.  Both  are  used  as  vig- 
nettes at  the  head  of  this  chapter.  Mrs.  Ferry  also  sent  copies  of 
the  early  newspapers,  with  the  unfamiliar  names  of  the  Hive,  Oracle, 
and  Democrat,  maps  and  early  text-books,  souvenir  papers  of  the  time 
of  Jenny  Lind's  visit  in  1852,  an  Oxford  Bible  printed  in  the  year 
1728,  samplers,  mugs,  and  a  spoon  once  belonging  to  Judge  Charles  E. 
Forbes  and  bearing  his  monogram;  an  embroidery  table  and  a  fine 
example  of  the  simple  form  of  cradle  used  in  days  of  old,  made  of  the 
plainest  wood,  and  with  a  wooden  hood  at  the  end. 

Edward  N.  Foote.  Safety  deposit  boxes  are  a  comparatively 
recent  invention.  In  old  times,  when  there  were  none,  people  relied 
upon  secret  drawers  in  their  desks,  and  placed  their  valuable  docu- 
ments therein.  Mr.  Foote  loaned  one  of  these  desks,  with  its  secret 
drawer.  Also  one  of  the  tall  highboys,  said  to  be  two  hundred  years 
old,  and  which  was  placed  in  the  back  parlor  near  the  door.  Besides 
these  he  sent  a  Lafayette  pitcher,  given  to  his  great-grandfather  in 
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Prof.  Harry  N.  Gardiner.  The  handsome  mahogany  sofa  which 
stood  in  the  hall  was  loaned  with  other  furniture  by  Professor  Gard- 
iner. The  Windsor  rocking-chair,  with  a  high  comb  back,  which  can 
be  seen  in  the  picture  of  the  dining-room,  standing  before  the  open 
door  of  the  library,  was  one  of  these.  Its  arms  were  considerably 
mutilated,  perhaps  by  some  one  dreaming  before  the  fire  and  occupy- 
ing his  time  by  whittling;  an  ancient  custom,  now  happily  going  into 
desuetude. 

Henry  S.  Gere.  A  framed  certificate  given  by  Joseph  Lyman, 
president,  and  J.  H.  Lyman,  secretary,  of  the  Hampshire,  Franklin  and 
Hampden  Agricultural  Society,  as  a  prize  for  the  best  calf  exhibited  at 
the  first  fair  held  by  this  society,  by  Chester  Smith  of  Smith's  Ferry, 
Oct.  20,  181 9,  and  of  interest,  as  it  was  one  of  the  few  relics  shown  of 
this  old  society,  now  nearly  one  hundred  years  established. 

John  C.  Hammond.  Mr.  Hammond  sent  an  antique,  which  in 
point  of  age  antedated  even  Captain  King's  cane,  being  a  copy  of 
Dyer's  reports  published  in  London  in  the  long  ago  days  of  1585. 

Mrs.  John  S.  Hitchcock.  A  knee  buckle,  once  worn  by  George 
Washington.  This  was  a  part  of  a  set  for  coat,  knee  and  shoes  and 
was  given  to  Mrs.  Hitchcock's  great-grandfather  by  Nellie  Custis, 
the  step-daughter  of  George  Washington. 

David  E.  Hoxie.  A  pewter  dish,  once  used  for  collecting  tolls 
at  Roberts  Meadow,  in  the  palmy  days  of  stage-coaching,  when  the 
four-in-hands  rolled  merrily  along  the  old  Bay  Road,  from  Boston 
to  Albany.  Also  the  quaint  candle  holder  standing  in  the  dining- 
room,  and  what  was  of  great  interest  to  the  student  of  early  crafts, 
a  set  of  tools  used  in  preparing  leather  for  use,  called  then  reducing 
leather,  such  as  the  tanning,  removing  hair,  blacking  and  polishing 
of  hides. 

Prof.  Mary  E.  Jordan.  The  sideboard  standing  in  the  dining- 
room  was  owned  and  exhibited  by  Prof.  Mary  E.  Jordan  of  Smith 
College.  It  was  a  fine  example  of  the  i8th  century  sideboard,  with 
its  so-called  wine  partitions,  for  holding  bottles  of  wine,  then  a  sup- 
posed necessary  adjunct  of  every  well-to-do  New  England  household, 
for  it  was  used  at  a  time  when  flip  and  toddy  glasses  took  the  places  of 
the  tea  cups  of  nowadays.  Miss  Jordan  also  sent  a  corner  cupboard, 
which  contained  her  fine  collection  of  china,  a  collection  of  slight  local 
significance,  but  of  great  value  here,  as  illustrating  the  household 
utensils  of  early  days.  The  copper  urn  on  the  sideboard  was  also 
hers,  as  well  as  the  large  soup  tureen,  a  tureen  made  to  accommodate 
the  needs  of  the  large  families  of  those  times.  A  visitor  from  the 
hill  towns  was  shown  this,  and  was  afterwards  heard  to  exclaim,  "It's 
no  such  thing.  It's  nothing  in  the  world  but  a  baby's  bathtub.  Why, 
my  grandmother  had  one  like  it."  Miss  Jordan  also  loaned  a  clock, 
said  to  be  the  first  in  the  town  of  Chesterfield,  a  copy  of  Trumbull's 
famous  portrait  of  Washington,  mirrors,  lowboys,  etc. 


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Miss  Harriet  J.  Kneeland.  Miss  Kneeland  loaned  portraits 
of  her  grandfather  and  grandmother,  Seth  Strong  and  his  wife,  Phoebe. 
Mr.  Strong  was  a  descendant  of  Elder  John  Strong,  who  was  one  of 
the  first  elders  in  the  town,  coming  here  soon  after  its  settlement. 
Seth  Strong  fought  in  the  war  of  1812,  was  a  member  of  the  Legisla- 
ture in  1833,  and  built  the  famous  round  house  on  Maple  street.  An- 
other exhibit  of  interest  in  the  county  were  the  andirons  of  an  old- 
time  parson,  the  Rev.  Moses  Hallock  of  Plainfield,  famous  as  being 
the  instructor  of  many  young  men  who  afterwards  made  themselves 
noted.  Among  others  he  prepared  William  Cullen  Bryant  for  Will- 
iams College. 

Miss  Ellen  E.  Kneeland.  A  handsome  mirror  and  one  of  the 
old  embroidered  pictures. 

Mrs.  Wallace  H.  Krause.  Mrs.  Krause  possesses  a  number 
of  the  belongings  of  two  of  the  local  celebrities.  Senator  Isaac  C.  Bates 
and  Judge  Henshaw.  Among  those  of  the  former  here  shown  were 
som.e  specimens  of  old  Canton  China  silverware  and  glass,  and  with 
them  a  cup  and  saucer  used  when  Daniel  Webster  visited  the  Senator. 
Also   furniture,   cane,   bell,   and   an  old   chest,   shaped  like   a   log,   and 

covered  with  leather,  of  which  the  hair 
was  left  on,  in  a  manner  that  but  few  of 
us  have  seen.  Of  Judge  Henshaw's  be- 
longings, there  were  shown  the  Paul 
Revere  teapot,  owned  by  him,  and  portraits 
of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Henshaw,  and  also  of 
Senator  and  Mrs.  Bates. 

Samuel  W.  Lee.  Mr.  Lee's  exhibit  was 
a  cane  made  from  wood  used  in  building 
the  old  church  in  Deerfield,  associated  in 
our  minds  with  the  sad  tales  of  Indian 
raids,  and  bloody  tragedies  of  the  17th 
century,  which  make  the  darkest  chapters 
in  the  history  of  Western  Massachusetts. 
Albert  A.  and  Robert  W.  Lyman. 
An  old  chair,  once  the  possession  of  their 
great-grandfather,  Jonathan  Judd.  Also 
his  concordance,  dated  in  1662,  and  of  a 
time  when  the  Bible  was  interpreted  in 
a  very  different  and  more  literal  manner 
than  now.  This  Mr.  Jonathan  Judd  was  the  friend  of  Jonathan 
Edwards  and  is  said  to  have  escorted  him  to  Stockbridge  after  his 
dismission.  There  was  also  in  this  donation,  books  and  an  ancient 
pair  of  bellows. 

By  another  exhibitor  was  loaned  the  cradle  of  the  historian,  Svl- 
vester  Judd.     This  was  procured  in  New  Jersey. 


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John  L.  Mather.  An  interesting  collection,  of  which  one  of 
the  oldest  pieces  shown  was  a  tall  clock,  handed  down  in  the  family 
for  five  generations  and  formerly  owned  by  Dr.  Samuel  Mather,  of 
the  noted  family  of  Increase  and  Cotton  Mather,  the  latter  a  celebrated 
exponent  and  believer  in  the  famous  witch  delusion.  One  of  this 
family,  Eleazar  Mather,  was  born  on  May  13,  1637;  graduated  from 
the  infant  college  of  Harvard  in  1656;  removed  to  Northampton  in 
1658;  was  ordained  minister  there  on  June  18,  1661,  and  died  on  July 
4,  i66g. 

Mr.  Mather  also  loaned  the  great  silver  watch,  once  the  property 
of  his  great-grandfather,  Dr.  Elisha  Mather,  one  of  the  old-time  phy- 
sicians of  the  town,  born  in  1706,  a  graduate  of  Yale  in  the  class 
of  1726  and  who  died  in  1779.  The  first  Eleazar,  father  of  Eleazar, 
the  first  minister,  as  above  mentioned,  was  educated  abroad,  and 
brought  back  with  him  a  copy  of  the  family  coat  of  arms,  which  was 
here  shown.  The  three-cornered  mahogany  table  used  to  partly  fur- 
nish one  of  the  bedrooms,  was  traced  back  to  Dr.  Samuel  Mather,  but 
is  thought  to  have  possibly  belonged  to  Esther,  widow  of  Rev.  Eleazar, 
who  later  married  Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard  and  was  grandmother  of 
Rev.  Jonathan  Edwards. 

Besides  these  interesting  exhibits,  Mr.  Mather  sent  a  collection 
of  deeds  of  great  age  and  value.  One  was  from  Jonathan  Edwards, 
to  Samuel  Mather,  for  land  on  the  Hatfield  road,  now  King  street, 
for  which  ;^54  was  paid  on  June  3,  1753.  Another  from  Hope  Root 
to  Dr.  Samuel  Mather,  the  land  where  the  City  Hotel  now  stands,  for 
;^7o  on  May  3,  1734.  One  from  Asahel  Pomeroy  to  Eleazar  Mather, 
and  the  last  from  Nathaniel  Dickinson  to  Samuel  Mather  in  1754,  for 
land  in  the  Walnut  Tree  division  of  the  Northampton  meadows. 

A  daughter  of  Rev.  Eleazar  Mather  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the 
victims  of  the  Indian  raids  and  was  abducted  from  Deerfield,  carried 
toward  Canada  and  murdered  on  the  way. 

Another  exhibit  portraying  the  life  of  those  early  years  was  the 
flip-glass  and  toddy-stick,  used  when  sugar  was  imported  in  a  hard 
loaf,  and  having  been  broken  into  lumps,  was  pounded  in  the  glass 
with  the  toddy-stick,  in  order  to  dissolve  the  quicker. 

Mrs.  Charles  A.  Maynard.  A  high  four-poster  bedstead,  of 
the  kind  used  when  people  climbed  up  a  set  of  steps  and  into  a 
mountain  of  featherbeds.  This  was  formerly  the  property  of  the 
famous  Dr.  Charles  Seeger  and  was  used  to  furnish  one  of  the  bed- 
rooms here. 

Miss  Nancy  L.  Miller.  The  fireplaces  of  the  olden  time  were 
the  first  method  of  heating  houses.  Next  came  the  fire  frames,  made 
of  iron  and  projecting  from  the  fireplaces.  After  this,  the  Franklin 
stoves  were  invented,  and  lastly  that  comparatively  recent  invention, 
box  stoves,  now  in  general  use.     Miss  Miller  loaned  a  fine  specimen 


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of  the  Franklin  stove,  which  can  be  seen  in  the  photo  of  the  dining- 
room.  Another  of  her  exhibits  was  a  cradle  which  once  rocked  to 
sleep  Guy  Minshall,  afterwards  inventor  of  numerous  useful  articles, 
such  as  looms.  One  invention  was  a  liquid  used  to  apply  to  steel  to 
straighten  it.  Mr.  Minshall  died  without  having  imparted  the  secret, 
which,  as  the  last  was  used  without  analysis,  is  now  lost.  He  was  the 
grandfather  of  the  late  James  R.  Trumbull.  His  portrait  and  that 
of  his  wife  when  young  were  also  loaned  by  Miss  Miller,  as  well  as  the 
old-fashioned  clock,  seen  in  the  photograph  standing  on  the  spinnet, 
besides  other  furniture,  hand-woven  blankets,  and  a  collection  of  val- 
uable china. 

Dr.  Arthur  G.  Minshall.  A  brass  lamp  found  in  the  old  home- 
stead of  Gov.  Caleb  Strong.  Its  unusual  design  authenticates  this 
date. 

Miss  Adelene  Moffat.  Miss  Moffat  exhibited  a  number  of  ex- 
cellent examples  of  household  furnishings  of  the  period  covered  by 
the  Celebration.  One  was  a  pewter  lamp  made  to  burn  sperm  oil. 
Another  was  the  pair  of  buckskin  breeches  seen  in  the  library,  and 
formerly  the  property  of  an  old  Northampton  parson.  They  were 
once  worn  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  by  an  officer.  She  also  loaned 
a  collection  of  china,  costumes,  embroideries  and  tapestries,  of  much 
value  and  interest. 

The  Munroe  Collection. 

Miss  Harriet  L.  Clapp  and  Thomas  Munroe  Shepherd.  This 
collection  has  several  interesting  facts  and  legends  connected  with 
it,  and  what  is  of  much  interest,  these  dates  are  verified,  by  well  au- 
thenticated  histories,   existing  deeds   and   family   records. 

The  articles  shown  were  relics  of  the  Middlecott  and  Foye  fam- 
ilies, direct  descendants  of  Mary  Chilton  of  the  Mayflower,  who,  it 
is  said,  in  her  haste  to  be  the  first  woman  to  land  on  Plymouth  Rock, 
jumped  into  the  water  to  her  knees. 

Mary  Chilton  married  John  Winslow,  Oct.  12,  1624,  and  their 
daughter  Sarah,  whose  first  husband  was  a  son  of  Miles  Standish, 
married  later  Richard  Middlecott,  who  hved  on  Beacon  Hill,  Boston, 
very  near  where  the  State  House  now  is,  and  near  the  site  of  the  place 
where  the  gallows  stood  and  witches  were  hanged,  and  later  that  of 
the  Beacon. 

On  March  26,  1702,  their  daughter  Sarah  married  Louis  Boucher, 
a  wealthy  Huguenot  exile,  who,  it  is  said,  was  descended  from  the 
Plantagenets.  The  silverware  here  shown  belonged  to  this  Sarah 
Middlecott-Boucher,  and  her  daughter  Sarah,  who  married  John  Foye 
of  Boston,  Oct.  23,  1729. 

The  Foyes  and  their  children  lived  where  the  Charlestown  navy 
yard  now  is.      Before  the  British  burned  Charlestown  the  family  fled, 


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and  being  unable  to  take  all  their  possessions,  deposited  some  for  safe 
keeping  in  their  well.  After  peace  was  declared  they  returned  and 
secured  the  silver  from  the  well,  a  part  of  which  was  here  exhibited. 

Among  this  solid  silverware  was  a  tankard,  porringer,  saltcellar, 
pepper  box,  sugar  tongs,  sundry  spoons,  and  a  large  spoon,  its  mark 
almost  obliterated  and  its  surface  worn  smooth  by  the  frequent  stirring 
of  that  homely  dish  of  our  forefathers,  hasty  pudding;  all  solid  and 
marked  with  the  initials  of  Sarah  Middlecott,  granddaughter  of  Mary 
Chilton,  and  also  Sarah,  John  and  Elizabeth  Foye. 

The  latter  married  David  Munroe,  a  relative  of  Ensign  Munroe, 
who  was  killed  on  Lexington  Green  and  whose  blood  was  the  first 
shed  in  the   Revolution.     All  were   ancestors  of  Miss   Clapp. 

In  the  center  of  the  case  which  held  this  collection  was  an  ex- 
quisite miniature,  painted  on  ivory  surrounded  by  small  pearls  and 
mounted  in  the  form  of  a  locket,  of  Mrs.  John  Foye  Munroe,  the  wife 
of  the  son  of  Ehzabeth  and  David  Munroe  and  the  grandmother  of 
Thomas  M.  Shepherd.  There  was  also  shown  a  large  and  handsome 
Russian  samovar,  belonging  to  this  Mrs.  Munroe  and  brought  here 
by  a  sea  captain  in  the  early  part  of  the  19th  century.  Also  a  carved 
mahogany  high-post  bedstead,  silhouette,  etc.,  all  brought  to  North- 
ampton in  the  middle  of  the  last  century. 

Miss  Clapp  also  exhibited  a  pair  of  Chinese  plates,  dating  from 
the  time  of  the  Bouchers,  made  in  China  for  the  export  trade  and 
with  the  rims,  contrary  to  Chinese  custom.  Also  a  pair  of  very  old 
French-heeled  slippers,  red  velvet  vest  and  other  antiques. 

Miss  Sarah  P.  Parsons.  Hand-woven  woolen  sheets,  made  at  a 
time  when  all  the  wearing  apparel  and  bed  clothing  used  in  the  house- 
hold was  made  by  the  untiring,  industrious  hands  of  the  women,  and 
used  in  those  cold  winter  nights  when  the  snow  sifted  through  the 
shingles  and  lay  on  the  beds  of  our  ancestors,  if  they  may  be  believed. 
Mrs.  Parsons  also  loaned  an  ancient  volume  of  the  Panoplist,  and 
also  a  branding  iron,  one  of  the  old  methods  of  burning  names  and 
initials  on  tools,  etc. 

Mrs.  Samuel  B.  Parsons.  A  warming  pan  belonging  to  the 
old  Parsons  family  of  Northampton,  and  also  old  pewter  utensils  and 
newspapers. 

Miss  LuELLA  L.  Peck  of  Smith  College.  Miss  Peck  loaned  some 
interesting  pieces,  among  them  the  three  pewter  platters  seen  on  the 
mantelpiece  in  the  dining-room.  Also  an  odd  nest  of  six  pewter  bowls, 
a  toilet  set  of  four  pieces,  the  only  example  shown  of  the  flowing-blue 
ware.  An  ancient  chair  from  Hatfield,  and  a  bowl  from  the  old  Kel- 
logg family  of  Hadley,  a  portrait  of  Washington,  a  travelling  flask 
With  De  Witt  Clinton's  portrait  upon  it,  and  some  rare  chna. 

Mrs.  a.  Perry  Peck.  A  sample  of  the  early  bead  work,  in  the 
form  of  necklaces. 


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Mrs.  George  S.  Phelps.  Fair  Polly  Pomeroy  must  have  been 
fond  of  gazing  in  the  looking  glass  at  her  reflection  there,  for  another 
of  these  useful  articles,  said  to  be  hers,  was  loaned  by  Mrs.  Phelps  and 
hung  in  the  back  parlor. 

Mrs.  William  S.  Phillips.  A  singing  book,  passed  down  through 
the  generations  from  the  time  when  singers  pitched  their  tunes  with 
the  aid  of  a  tuning  fork,  and  sang  the  doleful  fugues  in  favor  then. 

William  F.  Pratt.  Mr.  Pratt  sent  to  the  collection  a  beautiful 
example  of  the  household  furniture  used  many  years  ago,  in  the 
form  of  a  table  made  of  light  mahogany  with  borders  of  white  holly- 
wood.  This  was  once  the  property  of  a  son  of  Gov.  Caleb  Strong. 
It  was  accompanied  by  an  antique  chair  of  interesting  design. 

Mrs.  John  Prince.  Two  miniatures  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Tre- 
cothick  Apthorp,  Mrs.  Prince's  grandparents.  Mr.  Apthorp  was  the 
president  of  one  of  the  banks  in  Boston,  probably  one  of  the  first 
banks  in  this  country,  and  the  beautiful  snuff  box  given  him  by  the  offi- 
cials of  the  bank  was  also  among  this  collection.  There  was  also  a 
solid  silver  tankard  bearing  the  trade-mark  of  Paul  Revere ;  a  fan  case 
that  belonged  to  Miss  Kate  Prince, 
and  also  fans,  earrings,  etc.,  and  four 
gentlemen's  vests,  made  when  the 
wardrobe  of  the  men  was  not  as  sombre 
as  now,  and  vests  particularly  were 
made  of  gaily-colored  silks  and  satins, 
with  gored  flaring  skirts  and  brass 
buttons.  There  was  also  a  knife  case, 
bearing  a  coat  of  arms,  and  with  the 
date  1795. 

Mrs.  Josiah  H.  Prindle.  An  old 
newspaper  of  some  local  interest  was 
sent  by  Mrs.  Prindle.  It  contained 
one  of  the  proclamations  of  our  old- 
time  Governor,  Caleb  Strong.  She 
also  loaned  the  great  iron  key  which 
once  unlocked  the  doors  of  the  old 
jail,  on  Pleasant  street.  A  story  is 
told  of  this  key,  to  the  effect  that  a 
gang  of  marauders  once  endeavored  to 
rescue  a  prisoner  in  the  jailer's  absence. 
His  vigilant  wife  hid  the  keys  in  her 
clothing  and  then  followed  the  ruffians 
around  the  house,  while  they  sought 
for  the  key  in  all  the  rooms,  not 
thinking  that  the  object  of  their 
search     was     constantly     near    them. 


Hiram     Ferry 


Old  Jailer  at  Stone  Jail  nn  Pleasant  St. 
1849,  with  the  Jail  Keys 


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Mrs.    Prindle   also   loaned  a   cup   and    saucer    bearing    the    date    1799, 
and  another  flip  mug.     Flip  was  a  favorite  beverage  in  those  days. 

Mrs.  Myron  Ray.  Mrs.  Ray  loaned  several  unique  relics.  One 
was  the  dress  suit  worn  by  Mr.  John  Huggerford  at  the  Court  of  Eng- 
land, in  1774.  It  was  an  elegant  garment,  made  of  bluish  gray  striped 
and  flowered  silk  and  was  seen  on  a  form  in  the  library.  This  old- 
time  courtier  was  the  grandfather  of  the  late  Caroline  M.  Huggerford, 
wife  of  Judge  William  G.  Sterling.  There  was  also  a  gentleman's 
vest  and  two  dress  suit  cases  of  the  kind  used  one  hundred  years  ago. 
These  were  made  of  rattan,  and  consisted  of  four  or  five  trays;  one 
fitted  in  the  top  of  the  next  and  all  bound  together  with  a  handle  of 
the  same  material  and  secured  in  place  by  means  of  a  lock  and  key. 
They  were  round  in  shape  and  were  used  by  people  of  elegance  in  the 
days  of  stagecoach  travelling.  One  feature  was  somewhat  amusing, 
as  the  woman's  suit  case  was  made  to  hold  more  than  twice  as  much 
as  that  designed  for  the  man.  To  use  a  homely  simile,  the  former 
would  hold  about  a  bushel  and  the  latter  a  peck. 

Dr.  Osmore  O.  Roberts.  The  first  antique  noticed  by  the  vis- 
itor on  entering  the  hall  was  an  old  oak  chest  that  stood  there.  This 
was  very  large  and  bore  the  date  of  1700  carved  on  its  side.  From 
point  of  size  and  elegance  it  would  have  been  a  fit  hiding  place  for 
Geneva  in  the  old  sad  story  of  the  mistletoe  bough.  The  beautiful 
carved  table  which  appears  so  prominently  in  the  picture  of  the  front 
parlor  was  also  loaned  by  Dr.  Roberts  and  once  belonged  in  a  rich  Hat- 
field family.  It  was  made  of  mahogany  and  beautifully  inlaid,  with 
the  legs  and  feet  elaborately  carved.  It  dated  from  a  time  when 
Hatfield  was  the  second  richest  town  in  Massachusetts  in  proportion 
to  its  population.  Another  exhibit  was  a  beautiful  sewing  table  with 
glass  knobs  on  the  drawers  thereof,  and  also  other  rich  articles,  in- 
cluding Governor  Strong's  andirons. 

Miss  Stella  Shaw.  Another  very  interesting  relic  of  Major 
Hawley  was  the  little  silken  robe  used  for  his  christening  which  can 
be  seen  hanging  at  the  right  of  the  desk  in  the  picture.  The  curtains, 
with  their  romantic  story  of  separation  and  reunion,  the  desk  which 
he  used  as  a  man,  and  which  contained  an  autograph  letter  written 
to  him  by  President  John  Adams,  and  the  queer  little  robe  which  clothed 
him  as  an  infant,  formed  one  of  the  most  interesting  features  of  the 
collection. 

The  Shepherd-Pomeroy  Collection. 

Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Sizer,  Mrs.  Katherine  Tryon  (Shepherd) 
Smith,  George  Eltweed  Pomeroy  and  Thomas  Munroe  Shepherd. — 
General  Seth  Pomeroy  was  well  known  in  those  days  as  a  gunsmith. 
So  well  known  in  fact  that  the  Indians  of  Canada  frequentlv  traveled 
down  through  northern  forests  and  waterways,  to  barter  for  his  superior 


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Mrs.    Levi  Shepherd 
Daughter  of  Gen.  Seth  Pomeroy 


guns.  They  were  often  given  a  lodg- 
ing on  the  floor  of  the  Pomeroy  kitchen, 
for  a  night,  and  once,  at  such  a  time, 
Mafy  Pomeroy  made  her  first  appear- 
ance in  the  world.  These  facts  make 
extremely  interesting  the  old  flint-lock 
musket  here  exhibited,  and  made  by 
his  own  hands,  possibly  on  the  old  anvil, 
brought  to  the  exhibition  by  a  Pomeroy 
of  Easthampton. 

Other  relics  of  the  famous  local  war- 
rior were  his  seal  and  coat  of  arms, 
owned  by  Mr.  Shepherd,  and  the  most 
valuable  of  all  was  his  diary,  which 
was  guarded  with  especial  care,  as  it 
was  highly  prized  by  its  owner,  George 
Eltweed  Pomeroy  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  who 
was  one  of  the  most  interested  visitors 


to  the  Celebration,  taking  great 
pains  to  send  this  ancient  relic, 
and  also  to  be  present  himself. 

This  diary  was  written  during 
General  Pomeroy 's  campaigns 
about  the  time  of  the  seige  of 
Louisburg,  and  also  contained 
figures  of  estimates  and  expenses 
incidental  to  that  time  and  later. 

Lastly  there  were  the  photo- 
graphs of  the  old  church  in 
Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died, 
when  in  active  service,  as  Brig- 
adier General,  with  Washington, 
and  of  the  monument  erected  to 
his  memory  by  descendants  and 
the  sons  of  the  Revolution. 

There  were  also  mementos  of 
his  children,  a  photograph  of  a 
watercolor  portrait  of  his  daughter 
Mary  and  a  dressing  table  (or  low- 
boy) which  was  among  her  wed- 
ding presents  when  she  became 
the  wife  of  Dr.  Levi  Shepherd  on 
May  26,  1 77 1,  and  a  Chippendale 
chair,    dating    from    about     1790, 


Reproduction  fnjin  ivory  miniature  portrait  of 

Thomas  Shepherd  (1778-18-;6) 

Son  of  Levi  Shepherd  (1744-1805) 

Postmaster  1830-1841  and  I84576.     Held  several 

other    im|)ortant    offices,    was    a   i)ioneer  merchant, 

manufacturer  and  ex|)orter,  and  a  strong  friend  and 

supporter  of  Presitlent  Andrew  Jackson. 


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which  was  also  among  her  furnishings.  These  belonged  to  Mr. 
Shepherd. 

Of  great  interest  also  was  her  manuscript  journal,  covering  the 
years  from  1803  to  1807,  loaned  by  Mrs.  Katherine  T.  S.  Smith,  who 
also  sent  the  silver  tea  service  belonging  to  Thomas  Shepherd,  the 
son  of  Levi  and  Mary  Poineroy  Shepherd,  and  his  wife,  parents  of 
the  late  Henry  Shepherd. 

From  the  early  days  of  the  last  century,  when  "the  cup  that  cheers  " 
was  brewed  in  the  soapstone  house,  built  on  Round  Hill  by  Thomas 
Shepherd,  until  now,  nearly  one  hundred  years  later,  this  silver  has 
been  used  and  enjoyed  by  five  generations. 

A  romantic  story  is  connected  with  the  gold  and  cornelian  ear- 
rings, which  formed  another  feature  of  Mrs.  Smith's  donation  to  the 


Old     Pomeroy     House     on     Bridge     Street 
Residence  of  Thomas  M.  Shepherd 

exhibition.  These  belonged  to  a  granddaughter  of  Gen.  Seth  Pome- 
roy. They  were  given  her  by  a  cousin  to  whom  she  was  engaged  to 
be  married,  but  afterwards  political  strife  estranged  their  families  and 
the  engagement  was  broken.  She  never  married,  and  in  her  old  age 
gave  the  earrings  to  a  daughter  of  her  old  lover.  Mrs.  Smith  also  sent 
several  dainty  specimens  of  needlework  once  belonging  to  the  mother 
of  Henry  Shepherd,  and  also  a  sampler,  which  speaks  for  itself,  where 
the  child  fingers  more  than  a  hundred  years  ago  stitched  in  the  rec- 
ord,  "Catherine  Tryon's   Sampler,  August    19,    1794;  aged    12." 

Sarah,  another  daughter  of  General  Pomeroy,  married  a  Burbank, 
and   a   descendant    of   hers,    Mrs.  Frederick   W.  Sizer   of   New  Haven, 


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Teachjr.  Orator,  Historian 


Conn.,  exhibited  a  silken  cape,  hat  and  shp- 
pers  from  her  wedding  outfit.  These  were 
originally  white,  but  time  had  gently  colored 
them  a  soft  creamy  brown. 

There  was  also  in  the  collection  a  pewter 
hand  lamp,  silver  candlesticks,  tray  and 
snuffers,  and  a  banjo  clock  nearly  one  hun- 
dred years  old.  The  first  timepieces  known 
to  our  forefathers  were  the  tall  "grandfather 
clocks,"  like  the  one  Longfellow  immortalized, 
and  which  were  made  by  the  Willard  family 
for  one  hundred  years  or  more,  followed  by 
clocks  like  the  above,  but  then  termed  wall 
timepieces,  "banjo"  being  a  nickname  given 
them  in  late  years.  Then  came  the  less  ex- 
pensive box  clock,  of  which  there  are  many 
examples  nowadays,  and  two  were  here 
shown. 
These  last  exhibits  were  also  loaned  by  Mr.  Shepherd,  as  well   as 

the  two  following.  First  of  solid  silverware  and  a  memento  of  the  early 

days  of  the  Hampshire,  Franklin 

and    Hampden    Agricultural    So- 
ciety, for  these  articles  were  given 

as  premiums  by  that  society — a 

better    method     of     prize-giving 

than  the  cash  system  of  today. 
The   silver   was  of  a  graceful, 

attractive  pattern,  and  bore  upon 

it    the    seal    of    the    society   and 

the  date  1825. 

Second,  another  relic  of  the 
early  days  of  agriculture  of  which 
there  were  none  too  many  shown. 
This  made  doubly  interesting  the 
old  saw-teeth  sickles.  Sickles 
have  been  known  for  many  cen 
turics,  and  were  the  only  method 
of  cutting  grain  before  the  intro- 
duction of  the  clumsy  cradles 
and  the  more  modern  reapers. 
With  the  tools  for  reducing 
leather  the  home-made  clothing 
and  the  bed  ticking  made  from  the 
sowing  of  the  seed  to  the  weaving 
of  the   cloth,   and    these   sickles, 

Joseph  G.  CoGswrLLL 
Partner  witli  George  Bancroft,  in  Ronntl  Hill  School 


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a  fine  group  was  made,  illustrating  the  industries  and  the  necessities 
of  our  forefathers. 

Mrs.  James  Morven  Smith  and  Luther  J.  and  John  L.  Warner. 
From  this  family  came  to  the  exhibition  two  interesting  old  muskets, 
used  by  ancestors  of  the  Warners  in  the  Revolution,  and  one  was  also 
used  in  Shays'  Rebellion  in  later  years.  These  ancient  flint-locks 
were,  with  the  exception  of  General  Pomeroy's  musket,  the  only  ex- 
amples of  old-time  gunnery  shown,  as  there  were  notably  few  repeti- 
tions in  the  exhibition. 

Mrs.  Smith  exhibited  a  mirror  which  once  belonged  in  the  family 
of  Dr.  Daniel  Adams,  the  author  of  Adams'  Arithmetic. 

Mrs.  Elbridge  G.  Southwick.  Mrs.  Southwick  and  her  sister, 
Mrs.  Martha  R.  Boland,  both  descendants  of  William  Brewster,  sent  a 
collection  interesting  in  three  respects:  in  connection  with  the  local 
worthies,  in  value,  and  also  in  representation  of  old-time  portraiture. 

Of  the  Northampton  celebrities,  there  was  a  plate  once  belonging 
to  Gov.  Caleb  Strong,  and  an  egg  cup  formerly  owned  by  Solomon 
Stoddard,  but  now  in  possession  of  Mrs.  Nellie  S.  Sleight,  a  well-known 
employe  in  the  store  of  Stoddard  &  Lathrop,  that  mart  of  the  last 
century  to  which  yearly  pilgrimages  were  made  by  the  well-to-do  resi- 
dents of  the  hill  towns,  when  they  hitched  up  the  "old  shay"  and 
started  out  to  do  their  shopping  and  buy  their  delaines  and  nankeens. 

The  Millennium  plate,  with  its  representations  of  the  All  Seeing 
Eye,  the  Bible,  Dove,  Lion  and  Lamb,  etc.,  is  now  very  rare,  and  al- 
most worth  its  weight  in  gold.  The  one  shown  by  Mrs.  Southwick 
belonged  to  an  aunt  of  Mrs.  Edward  F.  Hamlin,  wife  of  the  present 
executive  clerk  of  the  Commonwealth,  formerly  of  the  shoe  firm  of 
Hamlin  &  Smith,  Northampton. 

Also  in  this  valuable  collection  of  china  w^as  an  engraved  toddy 
glass,  said  to  be  over  a  hundred  years  old,  and  used  before  individual 
tumblers  were  the  fashion;  a  fruit  dish  of  delicate  blue,  and  with  an 
open-work  border;  Staffordshire  and  Pilgrim  plates,  and  a  cup  and 
saucer  decorated  with  the  purple  gloss,  the  art  of  which  is  now  lost. 

From  Mrs.  Boland  came  venerable  pillow  slips,  and  a  teapot,  one 
hundred  and  fifty  years  of  age. 

Before  the  silhouette  and  the  daguerreotype  people  lacking  the 
means  to  purchase  portraiture  in  oil,  attempted  the  perpetuation  of 
the  features  of  their  friends  in  embroidery.  These  were  called  "family 
pieces,"  and  the  one  here  shown  was  made  at  Hopkins  Academy  in 
or  about  1805,  and  represented  a  mother  and  seven  children.  This 
was  exhibited  by  Mrs.  Laura  Russell  Campbell.  * 

Timothy  G.  Spaulding.  Recognizing  how  prominent  and  effici- 
ent a  part  Mr.  Spaulding  took  in  the  early  plans  of  the  Celebration 
it  is  quite  fitting  that  his  contribution  to  this  collection  should  be 
the  desk  used  by  such  a  prominent  person  as  Gov.  Caleb  Strong,  one 


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of  the  most  noted  of  the  local  celebrities.  With  it,  was  his  commission 
as  Governor,  which  had  been  found  and  kept  in  the  desk  and  which 
Mr.  Spaulding  had  framed  for  exhibit  here.  He  also  sent  a  portrait 
and  autograph  letter  of  Rufus  Choate,  the  famous  statesman. 

Mrs.  Everett  C.  Stone.  Some  interesting 
specimens  of  pewter  ware.  One,  a  lamp  used 
in  the  dismal  days  of  wdiale  oil.  A  pewter 
pepper  pot,  and  another  pewter  lamp,  found 
when  excavating  for  the  new  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
building  in  the  year  of  this  Celebration. 
Besides  these  Mrs.  Stone  contributed  a  pair 
of  homespun  and  colored  bedspreads,  one  a 
peculiar  brown  and  the  other  of  the  blue 
and  white  pattern  so  much  sought  after 
nowadays. 

Miss  Harriet  E.  Strong.  A  history  of 
the  well-known  Strong  family,  made  famous 
by  Gov.  Caleb  Strong,  and  of  which  family 
there  have  always  been  worthy  representa- 
tives in  Northampton,  from  the  time  of  the 
Governor  down. 

Miss  Josephine  E.  Strong.  This  was  one 
of  the  best  examples  of  the  methods  by  which 
people  in  those  days  were  forced  to  supply 
their  own  needs.  It  was  a  piece  of  blue  and 
white  bed  ticking,  the  flax  of  which  it  was  made  being  sown,  grown, 
reaped,  hetcheled,  woven  and  colored  in  the  family  of  Elias  Lyman 
of  Southampton,  and  the  piece  shown  is  believed  to  be  over  a  hundred 
years  of  age  and  is  well  preserved. 

Felix  Tardiff.  Candlesticks  made  of  brass,  in  an  attractive 
pattern  and  purchased  at  Governor  Strong's  auction.  , 

Mrs.  Emily  H.  Terry.     A  handsome  antic|ue  chair. 

Miss  Caroline  A.  Thompson.  A  silver  teapot,  of  very  graceful 
design,  formerly  the  property  of  Wealthy  (Shepherd)  Dickinson  Hunt, 
grandmother  of  Mrs.  Luther  J.  Warner  and  Mrs.  James  Morven  Smith, 
and  received  by  the  lender  through  Mrs.  Edward  Clarke,  second  wife 
of  the   late   Dr.    Daniel   Thompson. 

Mrs.  George  Tucker.  The  spinnet  standing  in  the  parlor,  said 
to  be  the  first  piano  in  New  Haven  and  brought  here  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Gordon  Hall,  for  28  years  the  beloved  pastor  of  the  Edwards  church. 

Mrs.  Frank  L  Washburn.  The  upholstered  chair  in  the  photo- 
graph of  the  parlor,  at  the  right  of  the  table,  has  a  unique  history.  It 
was  first  part  of  the  furnishings  of  the  house  that  Samuel  Clarke  built 
in  1746  and  which  was  used  as  a  tavern.      It  later  went  to  Round  Hill, 


chair  once  owned  by  Caleb  Strong, 

now  bv  Jobn  K.  Bates, 

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and  was  then  taken  to  Boston  with  other  household  furniture,  and 
at  length  was  brought  back,  through  the  marriage  of  its  owner,  to 
its  original  resting  place,  on  Hawley  street,  now  occupied  by  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Washburn,  never  in  its  long  history  and  its  various  journey- 
ings  having  been  in  but  one  family,  and  that  one  for  about  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years. 

Mrs.  Washburn  also  sent  other  interesting  pieces  of  furniture. 
The  three-cornered  chair  also  seen  in  the  photograph  and  made  for 
Dr.  Charles  L.  Seeger.  nearly  one  hundred  years  ago,  a  bureau  two 
hundred  years  old  made  by  Benjamin  Frothingham,  a  celebrated 
cabinet-maker,  who  lived  at  a  time  when  the  New  England  States 
were  not  divided  and  there  was  but  one  name  for  the  whole.  Therefore 
this  chair  is  marked  Charlestown,  N.  E.  (New  England).  There  was 
also  a  "tip-up"  table  and  an  inlaid  one  in  different  kinds  of  wood, 
with  a  fine  representation  of  a  fan  on  top.  This  last  was  made  by 
Archibauld,  another  cabinet-maker  of  Boston,  and  of  considerable 
renown. 

The  handsomely  embroidered  shawl  scarf  seen  on  the  table  in  the 
parlor,  and  believed  to  have  been  imported  from  China,  belonged  to 
Mrs.  Luther  I.  Washburn,  as  did  another  exhibit  of  the  same  charac- 
ter, but  of  different   associations.     This  was  the   flowered  print   dress 


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worn  by  Mrs.  Washburn  at  the  school  of 
Madam  D wight,  and  was  the  only  exhibit 
connected  with  that  famous  school  of 
learning,  the  precursor  of  Smith  College. 
Mrs.  Washburn  was  eighteen  years  of 
age  then,  and  her  father  brought  her 
down  from  Fitchburg,  driving  all  the 
way,  at  the  commencement  of  the  term 
and  again  at  the  end.  He  at  length 
moved  to  Northampton  on  account  of 
its  attractions. 

When  Jenny  Lind  was  staying  at 
Northampton  during  her  honeymoon  she 
called  the  view  from  Round  Hill  the 
"Paradise  of  America."  Mrs.  Edward 
Clarke  was  living  near  her  at  the  time 
and  the  famous  songstress  sang  before 
her  private  circle  of  friends.  A  ticket 
to  another  public  concert  in  Northampton 
was  part  of  this  exhibit,  and  with  it  was 

sent  a  photograph  of  Jenny  Lind 
and  her  husband,  taken  at  a  later 
date. 

Mrs.  Amy  S.  C.  Perry,  Mrs. 
Washburn's  mother,  sent  to  the 
collection  a  footstove,  believed  to 
have  been  the  property  of  Major 
Hawley. 

Daniel  W.  Wells.  A  book  of 
interesting  deeds  and  documents  of 
this  vicinity  and  principally  of  Hat- 
field, carefully  compiled  by  Mr. 
Wells,  and  covering  a  period  be- 
tween  1690  and   1850. 

This  book  recorded  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Hatfield  and  acknowledg- 
ments of  acts  before  early  justices, 
like  Israel  Williams,  a  commander 
in  the  time  of  the  French  and 
Indian  wars,  of  the  four  western 
counties;  William  Williams  of  the 
famous  Deerfield  family  of  that 
name,  and  Austin  Smith,  brother 
Jenny  Lind  and  Her  Husband,  1852  of   Sophia  Smith,  benefactress  and 

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contained  the  signature  of  John  Hastings,  first  schoolmaster  of  Hatfield, 
about  1700,  and  lastly  a  receipt  given  by  George  Washington  and  in 
his  own  handwriting. 

Miss  Caroline  S.  Williams.  Antique  china,  and  cut  glass  salt- 
cellars over  one  hundred  years  of  age. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Williston.  Miss  Williston's  exhibit  was  also 
of  local  interest,  for  it  contained  the  footstove  supposed  to  have  be- 
longed to  Miss  Esther  Stoddard,  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Solomon 
Stoddard,  and  also  china  once  belonging  to  Sheriff  Solomon  Stoddard. 

Waldo  H.  Whitcomb.  The  Mayflower  table  covered  by  the 
spread  in  the  back  parlor,  also  several  old  corner  cupboards  and  other 
antique  furniture. 

David  J.  Wright.  Some  furniture  of  great  age,  once  in  the 
well-known  Nash  family  of  Williamsburg.  Among  them,  a  lowboy, 
chair,  etc. 


Summary 

An    analysis   of    the  register,   which  was   kept  under  the  efficient 

and  genial  charge  of  Rev.  Wm.  P.  Clancy,  reveals  the  success  of  the 

exhibition   in   the    number    of   visitors,    and   its  wide  scope,  for  there 

were    representatives  of   England,  Canada,  Scotland,  New  Brunswick, 

Sweden  and  Natal,  as  well  as  residents  of  the  following  twenty-nine 

states  in  the  Union : 

Maryland  Ohio 

Virginia  Wisconsin 

District  Columbia  Michigan 

Florida  Iowa 

Louisiana  Nebraska 

Texas  Minnesota 

Missouri  California 

Georgia  Washington 

Indiana  Montana 
IlUnois 


Massachusetts 

Rhode  Island 

Connecticut 

Maine 

New  Hampshire 

Vermont 

New  York 

New  Jersey 

Pennsylvania 

Delaware 


The  registration  was  as  follows  : 

Sunday,  June  5,  1904  397  signatures 
Monday,  June  6,  1904  1018  signatures 
Tuesday,  June  7,  1904   1091  signatures 


Total, 


2506  signatures 


Probably   there    were   many   others   who    did    not   register,    which 
may  be  estimated  to  make  a  grand  total  of  three  thousand  or  more, 


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besides  many  who  failed  of  entrance,  owing  to  the  hmited  number 
ahowed  in  the  building  at  a  time. 

Nearly  all  the  noted  visitors  to  the  town's  festivities  attended  the 
exhibition.  Among  them  the  representative  from  Old  England, 
Alderman  Samuel  S.  Campion,  as  well  as  Rev.  Richard  W.  Birks,  also 
formerly  of  Northampton,  England,  now  Unitarian  minister  at  Deer- 
field,  Mass.,  George  Eltweed  Pomeroy  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  descend- 
ants from  a  distance  of  the  Howe,  Clark,  Tappan,  Strong  and  many 
other  families. 

There  was  the  principal  of  Clarke  School  with  forty-nine  of  the 
deaf  mutes,  then  pupils  there;  students  as  well  from  the  higher  grades 
of  the  pubhc  schools  and  from  Smith  College,  finding  in  the  exhibi- 
tion practical  lessons  in  historic  prudence  and  industry.  There  were 
many  descendants  of  the  earliest  families,  elderly  people  who  in  their 
youth  had  left  this  section,  seeking  their  fortunes  elsewhere  and  return- 
ing to  find  outward  things  changed  beyond  their  recognition  and  only 
here  the  welcome  sight  of  some  family  relic;  young  and  middle-aged 
persons  from  distant  parts  of  our  country,  who  on  their  first  visit  East, 
to  the  homes  of  their  ancestors,  here  found  some  ancient  heirlooms, 
around  which  was  associated  long-cherished  tales  of  family  history 
and  pride. 

From  remote  and  nearer  places  there  were  many  refined  and 
thoughtful  people,  who  here  found  a  very  tangible  evidence  through 
this  exhibition  of  portraits,  jewelry,  documents,  or  handicraft,  of  that 
Puritan  influence  and  sturdy  New  England  life  that  put  their  mark 
on  succeeding  generations,  locally  as  well  as  in  various  parts  of  the 
United  States. 

And  to  every  visitor,  whether  descendant  or  new-comer  to  this 
country,  this  collection  was  interesting,  while  to  many  it  was  a  charm- 
ing reminiscence,  an  education,  a  history,  and  a  subtle  impression 
of  the  results  of  early  privation  and  thrift,  which  laid  the  foundation 
for  conditions  of  prosperity  that  are  enjoyed  today. 

Notwithstanding  the  committee  had  but  a  small  share  of  the 
Celebration  funds,  the  gratuitous  service  of  its  own  members  and  their 
friends,  together  with  careful  expenditures,  enabled  them  to  not  only 
act  effectively  within  the  appropriation,  but  to  return  to  the  general 
treasury  ten  per  cent  of  its  allotment. 


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Although  the  rather  elaborate  system  of  management  seemed  at 
first  somewhat  too  cumbersome,  yet  it  proved  at  times  of  direct  assist- 
ance and  was  always  a  subtle  influence  for  appreciation  and  respect, 
and  on  the  whole  was  doubtless  wise.  Its  use  in  the  hands  of  the 
efficient  members  of  the  committee  contributed  towards  the  result 
of  furnishing  a  free  characteristic  exhibition  of  nearly  500  priceless 
historical  antiquities  to  thousands  of  people  for  three  consecutive 
days  and  the  return  of  all  the  articles  within  thirtv-six  hours  after  the 
close,  without  losing  even  one  and  but  a  single  slight  breakage. 

Such  a  result  was  unquestionably  satisfactory  to  every  contrib- 
utor, visitor,  helper,  and  indeed  the  whole  city,  but  none  can  so  keenly 
appreciate  that  immense  gratification  at  the  full  success  or  that  com- 
forting relief  at  its  happy  termination  as  those  few  anxious  and  untir- 
ing members  of  the  committee  on  whom  very  great  responsibility 
fell.  But  the  best  compensation  of  all  rests,  securely  and  content- 
edly, in  the  consciousness  of  having  tried  to  do  the  very  best  possible 
thing  and  succeeding  as  perfectly  as  the  conditions  would  allow,  and 
also  that  the  exhibition  brought  credit  to  the  whole  Celebration  and 
favor  at  home  and  abroad  to  the  city  itself. 


First     R  a  i  l  w  a  \'     Train     at     Northampton,     in     i  •'^  4  5 

From  an  Old  Engraving 


Incidental    Matters 
and    Portraits 


INCIDENTAL      EVENTS 

THERE  were  several  incidental  events  connected  with  the  Cele- 
bration which  seem  to  deserve  more  or  less  mention,  although 
not  upon  the  official  program.  Lack  of  space  prevents  ex- 
tended reference  to  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  Unitarian 
church,  which  occurred  on  Tuesday,  June  7,  but  reports  are  herewith 
given  of  the  High  School  Alumni  meeting  and  the  Miller  family  gather- 
ing, because  they  are  related  to  the  home-coming  which  was  a  feature 
of  the  Celebration.  Prof.  Charles  D.  Hazen,  professor  of  history  at 
Smith  College,  also  delivered  a  valuable  historical  review  of  North- 
ampton's past,  to  the  students  of  Smith  College,  Tuesday  morning, 
June  7.  This  address  will  be  found,  in  part,  on  pages,  417-419,  has 
been  published  in  pamphlet  form  by  the  author,  and  can  be  obtained 
at  the  bookstores. 

The  work  of  the  Home  Culture  Clubs  is  treated  of  at  some  length, 
as  a  semi-official  part  of  the  Celebration. 


AWARD  OF  PRIZES 


THE  award  of  prizes  for  exhibits  in  Tuesday's  civic  and 
military  parade  was  announced  by  the  Parade  Committee 
in  the  following  statement  the  next  day: 

In  accordance  with  the  announcement  heretofore  made  by  the 
Parade  Committee,  the  following  prizes  are  to  be  awarded  for  the  fol- 
lowing displays  on  the  line  of  march  of  the  parade  on  June  7  : 

For  the  best-appearing  float  of  any  organized  society,  $100,  to  be 
divided  as  follows:  $50  for  the  first,  $25  for  the  second,  $15  for  the  third, 
and  $10  for  the  fourth;  and  $25  for  the  best-appearing  private  turnout; 
and  $25  for  the  best  display  from  without  the  city. 

The  committee  chosen  to  decide  this  competition  was  composed  of 
Fred  M.  Smith  and  Mrs.  Charles  J.  Bartlett  of  South  Hadley  Falls  and 
Eugene  A.  Newcomb  of  Greenfield.  They  awarded  the  prizes  in  the 
following  way: 

St.  Anne's  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  Florence,  first  prize,  $50. 

Knights  of  Columbus,  second  prize,  $25. 

Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  third  prize,  $15. 

Degree  of  Honor,  Crescent  Lodge,  Florence,  fourth  prize,  $10. 

The  best  private  carriage,  prize  $25,  awarded  to  Mrs.  Belle  Dewey 
Williams ;  honorable  mention  to  Alexander  McCallum  and  Miss  Gertrude 
Clark. 

For  the  best  out-of-town  display,  the  Hampton  Mills  of  East- 
hampton. 

The  above-named  are  hereby  awarded  the  prizes,  as  announced, 
according  to  the  decision  of  the  judges. 

Richard  W.  Irwin,  Chairman. 


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M     OUR      FOREFATHERS 


OUR      BIRTHPLACE     W, 


AN  affectionate  regard  for  the  memory  of  our  forefathers  is  natural  to  the 
heart;  it  is  an  emotion  totally  distinct  from  pride;  an  ideal  love,  free  from 
that  consciousness  of  unrequited  affection  and  reciprocal  esteem  which 
constitutes  so  mu.ch  of  the  satisfaction  we  derive  from  the  love  of  the  living. 
Some  of  them,  it  is  true,  are  denied  to  our  personal  acquaintance,  but  the  light 
they  shed  during  their  lives  survives  within  their  tombs,  and  will  reward  our 
search  if  we  explore  them.  Lord  Linds.'W 


Whatever  strengthens  our  local  attachments  is  favorable  to  both  individual 
and  national  character.  Our  home,  our  birthplace,  our  native  land — think  for 
awhile  what  arises  out  of  the  feelings  connected  with  these  words,  and  if  you 
have  any  intellectual  eyes,  you  will  then  perceive  the  connection  between  topog- 
raphy and  patriotism.  Show  me  a  man  who  cares  no  more  for  one  place  than 
another,  and  I  will  show  you  in  that  same  person  one  who  loves  nothing  but  him- 
self. Beware  of  those  who  are  homeless  from  choice;  you  have  no  hold  on  a 
human  being  whose  affections  are  without  a  tap-root.  The  laws  recognize  this 
truth  in  the  privileges  they  confer  upon  freeholders,  and  public  opinion  acknowl- 
edges it  also  in  the  confidence  which  it  reposes  in  those  who  have  what  is  called  a 
stake  in  the  country.  Vagabond  and  rogue  are  convertible  terms,  and  with  how 
much  propriety  any  one  may  understand  who  knows  what  are  the  habits  of  the 
wandering  classes,  gipsies,  tinkers  and  potters. 

Robert  Southey 


PROF.  HAZEN'S  ADDRESS  AT  SMITH  COLLEGE 

PROF.  Charles  D.  Hazen,  at  Smith  College,  opened  his  address 
to  the  students  with  a  brilliant  reference  to  important  world 
events  cotemporaneous  with  the  settlement  of  Northampton. 
He  said  in  part : 

In  1654,  Louis  XIV,  called  Louis  the  Great,  was  king  of  France, 
and  the  splendors  of  Versailles  astonished  the  world.  He  was  also 
an  American  monarch,  ruling  over  an  indefinite  and  unexplored  king- 
dom, for  French  explorers  had  been  plunging  into  American  forests. 
It  was  a  quarter  of  a  century  before  La  Salle  made  his  wonderful 
voyage  down  the  Mississippi  and  a  half  century  elapsed  before  New 
Orleans  was  founded. 

In  1654,  Germany  was  recovering  from  the  frightful  ravages  of 
the  Thirty  Years  War.  In  1654  Queen  Christiana,  the  brilhant  and 
erratic  daughter  of  Gustavus  Adolphus,  abdicated  the  throne  of  Swe- 
den. In  1654  Ohver  Cromwell,  the  Lord  High  Protector  of  England, 
had  risen  with  unexampled  swiftness  from  a  Huntington  farmer.  He 
moved  grandly  through  the  most  tumultuous  period  of  English  his- 
tory, audacious,  adroit,  masterful. 

The  speaker  outlined  the  early  settlements  in  New  England  and 
told  why  Northampton,  with  its  rich  meadows,  was  so  eagerly  sought 
by  the  pioneers. 

The  feeling  of  isolation,  the  bitter  homelessness,  the  sense  of  sep- 
aration from  all  that  had  thus  far  been  accomphshed  in  this  world 
for  the  greater  profit  and  dignity  of  man,  society,  institutions,  arts, 
letters,  comforts,  the  influences  that  elevate  and  soften  and  endear 
life,  must  have  been  dominant  with  these  families  of  Northamp- 
ton, struggle  with  however  much  Ptuitan  stoicism  they  might  summon 
to  keep  the  emotion  under.  They  were  on  the  lonely  and  exposed 
frontier,  a  small,  poor,  obscure  and  uneducated  group  of  men.  In 
1654  there  were  probably  not  75,000  Englishmen  in  the  new  world, 
and  these  were  widely  scattered.  A  long,  thin,  sinuous  line  of  set- 
tlements, fringing  the  shores  of  the  Atlantic  from  Maine  to  New  York, 
and  some  settlements  in  Maryland  and  Virginia — that  was  all.  The 
fotmders  of  Northampton  were  true  frontiersmen  in  their  day.  Cour- 
age they  had;  "Steadfastness  in  the  bold  design."  There  was  no 
thought  of  turning  back,  but  poverty  of  every  sort,  of  material,  of 
intellectual,  of  social,  was  the  chief  characteristic  of  their  lives.     The 


418  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

only  poverty  they  did  not  know  was  that  of  opportunity  or  will.  It 
takes  an  effort  of  the  imagination  to  picture  the  life  of  this  town  two 
centuries  ago.  There  were  no  roads,  no  bridges,  no  mails,  to  keep 
up  the  connection  of  the  human  race.  A  kind  of  cartway  was  early 
established  to  Springfield,  but  toward  Boston,  or  Albany,  or  the  West, 
no  cart  could  travel  for  many  years.  Our  two  representatives  went 
to  the  Legislature  on  horseback,  by  the  old  Bay  Path,  merely  a  bridle 
path  through  the  woods.  The  Indians  had  a  habit  of  burning  the 
woods  each  year,  which  kept  thin  the  fill  of  undergrowth  and  made 
them  passable  in  every  direction  on  foot  or  horse,  but  that  was  all. 

As  late  as  1799  there  were  only  seven  post-offices  in  the  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts.  It  was  in  1792  that  Northampton  was  made 
a  postal  center,  under  the  administration  of  Washington.  Previous 
to  that  time  the  nearest  one  was  at  Springfield,  and  anybody  who  had 
occasion  to  visit  that  town  was  expected  to  bring  and  deliver  all  mail 
matter  that  was  destined  for  Northampton  and  places  near  by. 

The  men  who  settled  Northampton  were  manual  laborers,  pre- 
pared to  make  their  future  from  the  soil.  No  profession  was  repre- 
sented in  the  little  band  that  found  its  way  from  Hartford  250  years 
ago.  For  seventy-five  years  no  physician  was  to  reside  in  this  town, 
and  lawyers  everywhere  in  the  colonies  were  the  product  of  the  eight- 
eenth century.  But  no  sooner  was  the  necessary  work  of  the  axe 
and  hammer  and  saw  fairly  under  way  than  these  Englishmen — for 
most  of  them  had  been  born  in  England  —  sought  to  enrich  and 
deepen  the  local  life. 

Continuing,  Professor  Hazen  considered  the  founding  of  the  first 
meeting-house.  In  this  mean  and  lonely  structure  the  spiritual  and 
intellectual  life  of  the  town  began.  He  discussed  the  early  life  of 
Northampton  and  its  customs,  with  particular  reference  to  its  ad- 
ministration of  justice  and  its  punishment  of  offences.  He  discussed 
and  described  the  town  meeting.  The  first  school  was  established 
in  1664. 

Professor  Hazen  than  spoke  of  Soloinon  Stoddard,  Timothy 
Dwight,  Joseph  Hawley,  Seth  Pomeroy,  and  Jonathan  Edwards,  and 
told  of  their  influence  in  this  community.  Continuing,  the  speaker 
said,  "Not  only  have  great  men  lived  here,  but  interesting  occurrences 
have  added  a  lustre  to  the  annals  of  the  town.  Here  Bancroft  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  writing  his  History  of  the  United  States,  while  he 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


419 


was  a  teacher  on  Round  Hill.  Here  Motley,  the  historian,  studied 
as  a  lad.  Here  Daniel  Webster  and  Rufus  Choate  have  vied  with 
each  other.  Here  Emerson  preached  as  a  young  man.  Here  Henry 
Clay,  at  the  height  of  his  fame,  spent  a  Sunday,  attending  the  First 
and  Unitarian  churches.  Here  came  Kossuth,  the  great  Hungarian 
poet,  in  1852.  The  most  interesting  visitor  was  Lafayette.  The 
heart  of  the  whole  American  people  went  out  to  him.  No  one  can 
visit  without  emotion  this  ancient  town." 


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SCHOOL   DAYS   RECALLED 


Come,  dear  old  comrade,   you  and   I 

Will   steal   an   hour  from   days   gone  by  — 

The   shining  days  when  life  was   new, 

And   all   was   bright    as   morning   dew  — 

The  lusty   days   of  long  ago. 

When   you   were   Bill   and   I   was  Joe. 

Your  name  may  flaunt   a  titled   trail, 
Proud   as   a   cockerel's  rainbow  tail; 
And  mine   as  brief  an   appendix  wear 
As  Tam   O'Shanter's  luckless  mare; 
Today,   old  friend,   remember  still 
That   I   am  Joe   and   you   are   Bill. 

You've  worn  the  judge's   ermined   robe; 
You've  taught  your  name  to  half  the  globe; 
You've  sung  mankind   a  deathless  strain; 
You've  made   the  dead   past  live   again: 
The  world  may  call  you  what  it  will, 
But   you   and    I   are  Joe   and   Bill. 


How   Bill   forgets   his   hour   of  pride, 
While  Joe  sits  smiling   at  his  side; 
How   Joe,   in  spite  of  time's  disguise, 
Finds   the   old  schoolmate  in  his   eyes — ■ 
Those   calm,   stern  eyes,   that  melt   and   fill. 
As  Joe  looks  fondly  up   at   Bill. 

And   shall  we  breathe  in   happier  spheres 
The  names   that  pleased   our  mortal  ears  — 
In  some  sweet   luh   of  harp   and   song, 
For   earth-born   spirits   none   too  long  — 
Just   whispering   of  the  world  below, 
When   this  was   Bill   and   this   was  Joe  ? 

No  matter;   while   our   home   is   here. 
No  sounding  name  is  half  so  dear; 
When  fades   at  length   our  lingering  day. 
Who  cares   what  pompous   tombstones   say? 
Read  on   the   hearts   that   love   us  still, 
Hie   jacet,  Joe!      Hie  jacet.   Bill! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 


HIGH    SCHOOL    ALUMNI    ASSOCIATION 

Ox   Tuesday   afternoon  there   was   a   gathering  of   the    alumni 
of  the  Northampton  High  School,  at  the  High  School  build- 
ing, under  the  direction  of  the   Reception  Committee  of  the 
Northampton  High  School  Alumni  Association. 

There  were  present  about  one  hundred  former  members  of  the 
school,  including  many  of  the  older  graduates  residing  elsewhere,  who 
had  come  to  the  city  to  participate  in  the  Celebration,  and  who  have 
not  usually  attended  the  annual  meetings  of  the  Association. 

The  gathering  was  entirely  of  a  social  nature,  and  the  time  was 
spent  in  the  pleasant  renewing  of  old  accjuaintances  and  recalling 
scenes  and  incidents  of  high  school  days. 

MILLER      FAMILY      REUNION 


THE  gathering  of  the  Miller  family  of  America  in  this  city, 
the  second  day  of  the  Celebration,  although  not  a  part  of  the 
official  exercises,  was  welcomed  by  the  local  authorities,  very 
properly,  because  this  family  were  descended  from  William  Miller, 
one    of    the    twenty-four    original    settlers   of  1654,  and  Elbert  H.  T. 

Miller  of  Scottsville,  N.  Y.,  who  organized  this 
gathering  of  his  family,  was  much  interested  in 
the  Celebration  proper,  and  brought  about  two 
hundred  of  his  family  connections  to  Northamp- 
ton to  help  celebrate. 

In  the  fall  of  1899,  Elbert  H.  T.  Miller  of 
Scottsville,  N.  Y.,  while  on  a  visit  to  cousins  in 
Connecticut  and  Massachusetts,  became  much 
interested  to  learn  his  family  history  in  the 
United  States  and  decided  to  spend  some  time 
in  the  East,  in  research.  He  visited  most  of  the 
towns  in  New  England,  where  his  ancestors  had 
lived,  and  from  the  existing  records  and  other 
means,  succeeded  in  tracing  his  record  to  William 
Miller  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  1648,  and  one  of  the 
twenty-fottr  original  settlers  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  1654,  also  one  of 
the  founders  of  Northfield,  Mass.,  1671-2.     He  spent  one  year  in  New 


Elbert  H.  T.  Miller 


422  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

England  and  since  that  time  has  traveled  in  New  York,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Michigan,  Ohio,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Wisconsin  and  Missouri,  find- 
ing many  descendants  of  William  Miller,  and  has  the  genealogy  of  this 
old  familv  nearly  compiled,  and  in  a  short  time  hopes  to  publish  a 
work,  "The  Descendants  of  Wilham  Miller  of  Northampton."  Last 
spring  (1904)  on  learning  of  the  proposed  Celebration  of  the  250th 
Anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Northampton,  Mr.  Miller,  on  receipt 
of  the  official  invitation,  wrote  Charles  F.  Warner,  Secretary  of  the 
Invitation  Committee  for  the  Celebration,  suggesting  a  Miller  family 
reunion  at  Northampton,  Mass.,  on  one  of  the  days  during  the  Cele- 
bration, and  asked  if  he  would  co-operate  with  a  committee  of  the 
Miller  family  in  this  undertaking.  Mr.  Warner  replied  that  he  favored 
the  idea  and  would  do  all  in  his  power  to  aid  the  committee,  and  fur- 
ther, that  the  historic  town  of  Northampton  would  be  honored  with 
having  the  first  meeting  or  reunion  of  the  Miller  family,  which  was 
fitting,  as  it  was  there  that  their  ancestor  settled  in  1654.  Dewey 
Hall  was  secured  for  the  meeting  and  Mr.  Miller  sent  out  over  700  in- 
vitations to  descendants  of  the  family  in  many  states. 

On  Monday,  June  6,  1904,  the  incoming  trains  brought  a  large 
number  of  descendants  from  Massachusetts,  New  York  and  various 
counties  in  Connecticut.  The  forenoon  was  spent  in  sight-seeing,  visit- 
ing the  cemetery  and  historical  places  and  the  site  on  King  street, 
not  far  from  the  main  street,  where  Wilham  Miller  lived  in  Northampton, 
At  3  p.  m.  about  150  members  of  the  family  assembled  at  Dewey  Hall 
on  Pleasant  street  and  the  following  program  was  rendered,  Mr.  Clar- 
ence E.  Peirce  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  presiding: 

program 

Vocal  Solo 

Edward  Lankow,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Welcome  to  the  Miller  Family  by  Louis   L.  Campbell,  Chairman  of  the 
Invitation   Committee   of  the   City  of   Northampton. 

Piano  Duet 

Miss  Bertha  S.  Morehouse  and  Mr.  Swensen,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Poem 

,  Mrs.    Florence   A.    Tillotson   Stanard,    Le  Roy,    N.   Y. 

Vocal  Solo — "Faithful" 

George  D.  Miller,  Willimansett,  Mass. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  423 

Historical  Address — "William  Miller  and  His  Descendants,"  closing  with 
a  poem    "Northampton." 

Elbert  H.  T.  Miller,  Scottsville,  N.  Y. 

Instrumental  Solo 

Miss  Bertha  S.  Morehouse 

Genealogical  Remarks 

Clarence  E.  Peirce,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Vocal  Solo 

Mr.  Lankow 

Address — "The  Millers  in  War  and  Peace" 

Chandler  E.  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Vocal  Solo — "Forgotten" 

Mrs.  Rattray,  Holyoke,  Mass. 

Address — "The  Millers  as  Citizens" 

Matthew  Cliffe  Miller,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Remarks  by  Miller  Descendants  present. 

Vocal  Solo — "The  Dainty  Miss" 

George  D.  Miller 

Organization  and  Election  of  Officers  of  The  Miller  Family  Association 
of  Northampton.  A  constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  organization  were 
presented  and  adopted. 

A  Vote  of  Thanks  was  given  to  Dr.  Frank  Ebenezer  Miller  of  New 
York  for  sending,  at  his  own  expense,  Mr.  Lankow,  the  celebrated  bass 
singer,  who  delighted  all. 

The  following  officers  of  the  society  were  unanimously  elected  for  one  year, 
or  until  their  successors  shall  be  chosen: 

James  Phillip  Miller,  President,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Eli  Peck  Miller,  M.D.,  First  Vice-President,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Chandler  Edward  Miller,  Second  Vice-President,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Edwin  Ford  Miller,  Third  Vice-President,  Haydenville,  Mass. 
Elbert  H.  T.  Miller,  Secretary-Treasurer,  Scottsville,  N.  Y. 

It  was  voted  to  hold  the  next  meeting  at  Hartford,  Conn. 

At  evening  some  returned  to  their  homes  while  others  remained 
to  further  participate  in  the  city  Celebration.  The  following  persons 
were  in  attendance  at  the  reunion  and  are  registered  as  members  of 
The  Miller  Family  Association  of  Northampton : 

IRames 

James  Phillip  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Gertrude  Shirrell  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Harry  Gilbert  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 


424  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Mrs.  Anita  Loomis  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Edwin  Pemberton  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Nellie  Miller  Moses,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Chandler  Edward  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Anna  J.  Miller,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Andrew  T.  Miller,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Ida  A.  Miller,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Miss  Julia  Cook  Clark,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Miss  Annie  B.  Clark,  Northampton.  Mass. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Nims  Kingsley,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Kate  M.  Edwards  Moakley,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Ralph  Hoyt  Clark,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Mary  I.  Kingsley  Clark,  Northampton,  Mass. 

Edwin  Ford  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Ellen  Woodburn  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Edwin  Cyrus  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Edith  Childs  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Miss  Charlotte  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Miss  Gladys  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Miss  Adelia  Maria  Miller,  Haydenvihe,  Mass. 

Miss  Hattie  Amelia  Miller,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Mary  Miller  Nash,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Wallace  Henry  Nash,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Miller  Thresher,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Miss  Vera  Miller  Thresher,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Miss  Ruby  May  Thresher,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Miss  Bertha  Louise  Thresher,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Susan  Tilton  Barrus,  Wihiamsburg,  Mass. 

Henry  Gildersleeve  Miller,  South  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

Miss  Lucy  Elizabeth  Miller,  South  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

Miss  Eveline  Louise  Miller,  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

Miss  Christine  Bates,  South  Glastonbury,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Dolly  D.  Miller  Roberts,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Lillian  Alford  Allison,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Ethel  Allison  Butler,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Agnes  Dow  Allison,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Miss  Winifred  Allison,  Middletown,  Conn. 

Nathan  Flint  Miller,  Bloomheld,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Emily  Stoddard  Miller,  Bloomfield,  Conn. 

Franklin  Bidwell  Miller,  Bloomfield,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Mary  Davis  Miller,  Bloomheld,  Conn. 

Walter  L.  Beeman,  Bloomheld,  Conn. 

Miss  Anna  Bidwell  Miller,  Blooinheld,  Conn. 

Clarence  E.  Peirce,  Springheld,  Mass. 

Alvin  Miller  Burt,  Springheld,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Eliza  Cudworth  Burt,  Springheld,  Mass. 

Miss  Harriet  Hoadley  Miller,  Springheld,  Mass. 

Jonathan  Miller,  Springheld,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Jonathan  Miller,  Springheld,  Mass. 

Henry  Lucius  Miller,  Newington,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Georgia  Nott  Miller,  Newington,  Conn. 

Carl  Nott  Miller,  Newington,  Conn. 

Miss  Elsie  B.  Miller,  Newington,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Belle  Chapin  Peirce,  Somers,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Rosie  L.  Sperry  Miller,  South  Hadley,  Mass. 

Miss  Emila  Pomeroy  Cutler,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Mary  Hoyt  Clark,  Sunderland,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Grace  Clark  Hobert,  Sunderland,  Mass. 


NORTHAMPTON:  MASSACHUSETTS  425 

George  Dexter  Miller,  Willimansett,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Mary  Miller  Morehouse,  Willimansett,  Mass. 

Miss  Bertha  S.  Morehouse,  Willimansett,  Mass. 

Henry  Alvin  Miller,  Southwick,  Mass. 

George  Harrison  Miller,  Southwick,  Mass. 

Lewis  W.  Wadhams,  West  Springfield,  Mass.  , 

Clara  Pease  Wadhams,  West  Springfield,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Huntington  Moore,  Somerville,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Nellie  E.  Porter,  Melrose,  Mass. 

John  Epaphras  Miller,  Oxford,  N.  Y. 

Pliny  F.  Nims,  Athol,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Pliny  F.  Nims,  Athol,  Mass. 

Francis  A.  Fiske,  East  Shelburne,  Mass. 

Mrs.  May  Fiske  Severance,  East  Shelburne,  Mass. 

Miss  Hattie  Allen  Fisk,  East  Shelburne,  Mass. 

Miss  Fanny  May  Smith,  Warsaw,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Florence  A.  T.  Stanard,  Le  Roy,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Emma  Halbert  Miller,  Scottsville,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Laura  Miller,  Scottsville,  N.  Y. 

Elbert  H.  T.  Miller,  Scottsville,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  William  I.  Edwards,  Westhampton,  Mass. 

Miss  Effie  B.  Edwards,  Westhampton,  Mass. 

Miss  Mary  E.  Edwards,  Westhampton,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Alice  Edwards  Lyman,  Easthampton,  Mass. 

Eli  p.  Miller,  M.D.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Matthew  Cliffe  Miller,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Emory  Francis  Miller,  Avon,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Emory  Francis  Miller,  Avon,  Conn. 

Charles  H.  Miller,  Avon,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Ellen  E.  Woodford,  Avon,  Conn. 

Bennett  Allen,  Florence,  Mass. 

The  William  Miller  Family 

William  Miller,   Ipswich,    164S.      One  of  24  original  settlers  of  Northampton, 
Mass.,    1654.      Settler   of  Northfield,   Mass.,   1672.     d.   Northainpton,   Mass., 

15  July,  1690.     m.  Patience (Northfield  history  says  "She  was  a  skilled 

physician  and  surgeon.")      d.  Northampton,  Mass.,  16  Mar.,  17 16.     Children: 

Mary,  b. 

Rebeckah,  b.,  d.  Northampton,  Mass., 
Patience,  b.  Northampton,  Mass., 
William,  b.  Northampton,  Mass., 
Mercy,  b.  Northampton,  Mass., 
Ebenezer,  b.  Northampton,  Mass., 
Mehitable,  b.  Northainpton,  Mass., 
Thankful,  b.  Northampton,  Mass., 
Abraham,  b.  Northampton,  Mass., 


Aug., 

1657 

15  Sept., 

1657 

30  Nov., 

1659 

S  Feb., 

1662 

7  June, 

1664 

10  July, 

1666 

25  Apr., 

1669 

20  Jan., 

1672 

426  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION  i 

^^  .  j 

Itbx.  /Iftiller's  iPoem 

Hail,  Northampton,  ancient  town  ! 

Fair  are  thy  sunny  skies. 
The  mountains  grand  on  every  hand 

In  splendor  round  thee  rise, 
And  down  thy  fertile  valleys  fair 

Bright,  sparkling  streamlets  flow. 
Whilst  flowers  rare  perfume  the  air 

And  set  thy  hills  aglow. 

Northampton  of  the  old  Bay  State,  I 

Of  all  thou  art  the  best. 
For  every  toil  upon  thy  soil  | 

Returns  a  bounty  blest.  1 

Thy  every  vale  and  every  hill  I 

The  hives  of  labor  hold, 
Which  takes  but  skill,  with  stock  in  mill, 

Great  products  to  unfold. 

Thy  rivers  at  their  source  ! 

Flow  forth  from  beds  of  gold. 
And  down  the  land  through  valleys  grand 

They  sweep  in  billows  bold,  j 

And  on  their  waves  thy  commerce  great 

Finds  exit  to  the  sea. 
And  nations  all,  both  great  and  small. 

Pay  tribute  unto  thee. 

Thy  sons  in  war  are  true  and  brave, 

In  peace  their  virtues  glow; 
No  traitor's  name  or  coward's  shame  i 

Doth  thy  proud  records  show,  i 

But  thy  bright  name  on  freedom's  page 

As  luminous  as  at  birth. 
Will  ever  shine  with  light  divine 

Whilst  freedom  dwells  on  earth. 

Thou  art  a  town  of  happy  homes. 

Where  peace  and  pleasure  reigns; 
Thy  pretty  girls,  earth's  treasure  pearls. 

Make  famous  thy.  domains.  I 

Thou  art  indeed  supremely  blest  > 

By  nature's  thousand  charms;  i 

Great  fields  of  wealth  and  founts  of  health 

Thou  claspest  in  thine  arms. 

And  thou  hast  many  beauties  grand, 

In  this  valley  fair  to  see, 
And  heaven's  sun  ne'er  shone  upon 

A  fairer  land  than  thee; 
And  as  thy  many  sons  return, 

Who  have  been  wont  to  roam, 
They  raise  their  songs  in  measures  strong 

To  praise  their  native  home. 

Elbert  H.  T.  Miller  i 

Scottsville,  New  York.  ; 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  427 


/Iftrs.  StanarD's  ipocm 


Descendants  of  William,  one  and  all, 

Who  are  gathered  here  at  Dewey  Hall, 

From  the  east  and  west:  from  the  north  and  south: 

From  the  river's  source  to  the  river's  mouth: 

To  welcome  you  all  with  right  good  will, 

Come  you  from  the  mountain,  valley  or  hill. 

My  paternal  grandmother  boasted  with  pride 
Of  the  Miller  blood  which  she  had  imbibed. 
Had  she  lived  to  be  with  us  here  today, 
I  really  can't  tell  you  what  she  would  say. 
I  am  sure  her  eyes  would  have  opened  wide 
To  see  so  many  Millers  side  by  side. 

She  counted  them  as  among  the  best. 
And  praised  the  qualities  they  possessed . 
There  were  none  so  wise,  so  good  as  they  — 
How  many  times  I  have  heard  her  say; 
And  the  greatest  praise  she  could  give  nie. 
Was  to  call  me  a  Miller,  just  like  herself. 

In  every  state  and  in  every  clime. 

You  will  find  them  searching  along  the  line. 

All  striving  to  fill  as  best  they  may 

The  space  of  their  destiny  day  after  day; 

Hoping  their  efforts  may  not  be  in  vain, 

And  goodness  and  greatness  they  each  may  attain. 

There  are  Millers  short  and  Millers  tall, 
There  are  Millers  great  and  Millers  small ; 
There  are  Marthas  who  shoulder  many  cares. 
And  Marys  willing  to  give  them  all  theirs. 
There  are  lawyers,  doctors  and  statesmen  true, 
Farmers,  mechanics  and  preachers,  too. 

We  are  proud  indeed  of  our  ancestral  tree. 

It  interests  you  and  it  interests  me. 

And  though  all  its  fruit  is  not  perfect  and  fair. 

With  others  we  think  it  will  favorably  compare. 

So  we  view  with  pride  each  branch  and  vine 

That  is  added  to  it  from  time  to  time. 

If  you  wish  to  know  more  of  the  Millers?     Well ! 

Let  Elbert,  our  genealogist,  tell 

Of  William,  planter  and  tanner,  of  great  renown. 

Who  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Northampton  town; 

Of  Patience,  who  lived  to  remarkable  age. 

And  who  was  a  wonderfully  wise  old  sage. 


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QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Who  covild  mend  your  bones  and  cure  your  ills 
With  her  noted  roots  and  herbs  and  pills, 
When  Millers  were  born  and  where  they  died, 
And  how  many  children  they  had  beside. 
Oh,  he  will  talk  to  you  till  your  head  will  swim, 
And  keep  you  up  till  your  eyes  grow  dim, 

While  he  relates  with  the  greatest  of  pride. 

Of  his  ancestors  on  the  Miller  side. 

But  if  all  had  chosen  to  be,  like  he, 

A  bachelor,  why  !  do  you  not  see. 

This  reunion  today  would  not  have  been? 

But  that  is  his,  and  not  our  sin. 

In  this  grand  old  world  there  is  room  for  all ; 

The  rich  and  the  poor,  the  great  and  the  small. 

So  to  all  who  descended  from  William  we  say. 

Our  hearts  go  out  to  you  on  this  reunion  day. 

W^e  trust  of  God's  blessings  you  each  have  your  share. 

And  from  sorrows  unbearable  your  lives  He  will  spare. 


PUBLIC       COMFORT       HOUSE 


TPTE  share  of  the  Home  Culture  Clubs  in  the  Celebration  of 
tlic  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  indicated  graph- 
ical! v  the  spirit  of  that  institution.  In  familiar  phrase,  the 
Home  Culture  Clubs  stand  ready  to  do  for  the  community,  or  for  the 
individual,  what  is  not  being  done,  or  cannot  be  done  by  other  agen- 
cies, and  to  leave  undone  whatever  any  other  agency  can  and  will  do. 
Two  buildings,  the   Household  Arts  House  on  Gothic  street  and  the 

Center-street  club  house  (the  third  build- 
ing, Carnegie  Hall,  not  being  in  existence), 
were  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  city, 
with  the  suggestion  that  the  city"  his- 
torical collections  be  housed  in  the  one 
and  the  other  be  equipped  as  a  Public 
Comfort  House.  The  peculiar  fitness  of 
the^Household  Arts  House,  architecturally, 
with  its  fine  colonial  front,  and  the  di2[- 
nified  and  beautiful  old-fashioned  interior 
woodwork,  would  have  recommended  it 
particularly  for  an  exhibition  of  antic^ue 
furniture  and  historical  records,  even  if 
it   had   been   less    centrallv    located.      All 


George  W.  Cable 

evidence  of  the  cooking,  waitress,  dress- 
making and  other  classes  of  especial 
interest  to  women  were  removed  for  the 
time  being,  and  perhaps  the  most  in- 
teresting collection  of  furniture,  pictures, 
silver,  clothing,  weapons  and  other 
objects  connected  with  the  early  life  of 
Northampton  that  has  ever  been  seen 
together,  was  exhibited  in  the  well-filled 
rooms,  and  this  most  instructive  feature 
of  the  Celebration  has  been  referred  to 
elsewhere. 

The  Center-street  house   presented  a 


Miss  Adelene  Moffat 


430  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

similar  transformation.  The  need  of  a  building  centrally  located, 
where  the  day  visitors  from  out  of  town  might  come  for  rest  or  for 
refreshment,  to  meet  their  friends,  or  where  they  might  be  taken  in 
case  of  accident,  was  very  evident  from  the  first,  and  the  acceptance 
by  the  city  of  the  Home  Culture  Clubs'  offer  of  this  building  for  that 
purpose  solved  what  might  have  been  a  very  serious  problem. 

The  main  reading-room  on  the  ground  floor  was  converted  into 
a  general  reception  room.  Easy-chairs,  magazines  and  papers,  fans, 
writing  materials,  the  telephone  and  many  other  little  conveniences, 
were  at  the  service  of  the  visitors.  Opening  out  from  this  room  were 
the  quarters  used  ordinarily  for  class-rooms,  which  were  converted, 
respectively,  into  a  thoroughh"  equipped  hospital  room,  with  a  trained 
nurse  from  the  Dickinson  Hospital  in  attendance,  toilet-room  and 
lavatory  for  men,  a  comfort  much  appreciated  by  some  visitors  quite 
old  and  infirm,  for  whom  the  effort  to  come  had  been  a  trial  of  strength. 
A  similar  room  for  women,  with  a  darkened  room  for  "sick  headaches," 
or  persons  requiring  absolute  quiet,  were  arranged  in  the  more  re- 
tired quarters  at  the  rear  of  the  building.  These  rooms  were  equipped 
with  cots,  an  abundance  of  clean  towels  and  every  conceivable  neces- 
sity, and  the  committee  might  well  have  a  justifiable  pride  in  the  fact 
that  not  a  single  article  asked  for  by  any  of  the  hundreds  who  pat- 
ronized the  rooms  had  been  forgotten  or  misplaced.  These  requests 
varied,  from  a  needle  and  thread,  a  hot  fire  or  a  clean  handkerchief, 
to  a  baby  carriage  and  a  temporary  foster  mother.  Over  a  thousand 
people  used  this  building  on  the  Tuesday  of  the  Celebration.  The 
large  art  room  became  a  kindergarten  and  day  nursery,  in  which  very 
young  children  might  be  left  while  their  mothers  went  to  the  parade 
or  elsewhere. 

On  the  floor  above,  the  gymnasium  and  amusement  hall  was 
transformed  into  a  banquet  hall,  and  mid-day  and  evening  meals 
were  served  by  a  committee  from  the  women's  council,  assisted  by 
committees  from  the  churches  of  the  center  and  Florence.  The  un- 
qualified co-operation  of  all  the  denominations,  under  the  auspices 
of  a  purely  sociological  organization,  was  in  itself,  as  one  of  the  visitors 
said,  worth  coming  to  Northampton  to  see.  The  co-operation  of  the 
churches  was  not  confined  to  the  older  and  richer  churches,  but  an 
almost  equal  service  was  rendered  by  such  small  societies  as  the  Hebrew 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  431 

congregation  of   B'nai   Israel  and  the  newly-formed    Polish   congrega- 
tion, St.  John  of  Cantius.     The  committees  were  as  follows: 

Committee  for  the  Public  Comfort  House — Mrs.  L.  Clark  Seelye, 
Mrs.  A.  Lyman  Williston,  Mrs.  John  A.  Houston,  Miss  Eleanor  P. 
Gushing;  chairman,  Dr.  Augusta  Camp. 

Committee  for  the  Arrangement  of  the  Historieal  Collections  in  the 
Gothic-street  House  —  Miss  Adelene  Moffat,  Mrs.  WilHam  H.   Clapp. 

Committee  for  the  Luncheon  arranged  by  the  united  churches — Gen- 
eral committee,  Mrs.  Louise  S.  Hildreth,  Mrs.  John  B.  O'Donnell,  Mrs. 
Walter  A.  Sheldon;  chairman,  Mrs.  Phineas  P.  Nichols.  Sub-commit- 
tee, for  the  Baptist  church,  Mrs.  Joseph  O.  Daniels;  B'nai  Israel  Syn- 
agogue, Mrs.  Max  Chavin;  Edwards  church.  Miss  EHza  I.  Maynard, 
Mrs.  Charlotte  M.  Morgan,  Mrs.  Jennie  E.  Heine,  Miss  Aida  A.  Heine; 
Church  of  the  Annunciation,  Mrs.  Michael  E.  Cooney,  Miss  Mary  Dunn, 
Mrs.  Patrick  J.  Daley;  Church  of  the  Blessed  Sacrament,  Mrs.  Edward 
T.  Barrett;  First  Congregational  church,  Mrs.  George  N.  WeV^ber,  Mrs. 
Sidney  A.  Clark,  Mrs.  Louise  S.  Hildreth;  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  Mrs.  Walter  A.  Sheldon;  Florence  Congregational  church, 
Mrs.  S.  Allen  Barrett,  Mrs.  Frederick  E.  Chase;  Free  Congregational 
church,  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Sanford;  Sacred  Heart  church.  Misses  Albina  L. 
Bernier  and  AdeUne  M.  La  Plant;  Second  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
Florence,  Mrs.  Edwin  M.  Mason;  St.  John  of  Cantius  church,  Miss 
Kate  G.  Miller;  St.  John's  Episcopal  church,  Mrs.  Frank  I.  Washburn; 
St.  Marv's  Church  of  the  Assumption,  Mrs.  John  B.  O'Donnell,  Mrs. 
Edward' W.  Blanchfield,  Miss  Hannah   M.  Twohig. 

Committee  for  tlie  Float — Messrs.  Charles  H.  Tucker,  Edward  J. 
Jarvis,  John  W.  Coleman,  Charles  E.  Derosier,  Emory  C.  Warner,  John 
J.  Spring,  John  J.  Denn.  Mrs.  Emory  C.  Warner,  Miss  Albina  L. 
Bernier,  Miss  Adehne  M.  La  Plant,  Miss  Eva  R.  Choquette. 

Miss  Adelene  Moffat  and  Harry  B.  Taplin,  secretaries  of  the  clubs, 
were  ex-ofhcio  members  of  all  committees. 


REMARKABLE     RECORD     FOR     A 
GREAT     CIVIC     CELEBRATION 

NO   CRIME,   NO  OCCIDENT,  NO  FICIOUSNESS,  REPORTED 


Chief-of-Police   Henrv  E.  Mavnard  and  Chauffeur  George   R.  Turner 

ALLUSION  has  been  made  in  the  press  repoits  to  the  noticeable 
lack  of  accidents,  drunkenness  and  crime  during  the  Celebra- 
tion, and  this  matter  deserves  more  than  ordinary  mention. 
That  such  an  important  affair,  participated  in  by  probably  50,000 
people,  should  pass  without  an  accident,  any  loss  of  property,  or  gen- 
eral carousal,  is  cjuite  remarkable,  and  is  a  testimony  to  the  strength 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  433 

and  skill  of  the  lawful  authorities,  as  well  as  the  self-control  of  the 
people.  Extraordinary  precautions  were  taken  by  the  police  depart- 
ment, to  make  property  and  life  secure  during  the  Celebration,  and 
the  good  sense  and  co-operation  of  the  people  doubtless  contributed 
greatly  to  the  preservation  of  law  and  order. 

Several  days  before  the  Anniversary,  Chief-of-Police  Maynard 
suggested  precautions  to  the  public,  such  as  to  lock  their  houses  care- 
fully if  they  left  them  during  the  Celebration  hours,  to  avoid  carry- 
ing money  or  valuables  on  their  persons,  in  a  crowd,  and  to  look  sharp 
when  crossing  the  street,  in  front  of  approaching  vehicles  or  cars. 

Police  service  was  not  unusually  pressing,  however,  until  the  third 
day  of  the  Celebration,  although  several  crooks  were  spotted  and  sent 
out  of  town  on  Monday.  On  Tuesday  Chief  Maynard  had  automobile 
service,  with  George  R.  Turner  as  chauffeur,  and  was  in  every  part 
of  the  town  during  the  day.  Six  officers  from  Holyoke  were  on  duty 
during  the  day,  and  five  others  from  the  same  city  were  assigned  to 
the  driving  park  at  night.  State  detectives  from  Boston  and  specials 
from  New  York  were  also  on  hand,  and  kept  a  close  watch  for  yjick- 
pockets.  A  woman  acting  suspiciously  in  a  Main-street  store  was 
escorted  out  of  town  and  told  not  to  return,  but  no  loss  of  money  was 
reported  during  the  day,  except  of  some  small  amounts,  which  were 
probably  purely  accidental. 

Although  the  saloons  were  open  and  did  a  thriving  business,  there 
was  no  perceptible  drunkenness  on  the  streets,  and  there  were  but 
three  cases  in  the  police  court  the  next  morning.  The  hospital  ambu- 
lance and  the  doctors  waited  in  vain  to  be  called,  although  it  was  ex- 
pected that  there  would  be  more  than  one  case  requiring  attention 
before  the  day  was  over. 

Take  it  all  in  all,  it  was  a  most  lemarkable  showing  for  public 
comfort,  peace  and  order,  on  such  a  day,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  such 
a  crowd  could  ever  be  gathered  in  Northampton  again  under  such 
fortunate  circumstances. 


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HAVE  been  all  over  England,  have  traveled  through  the  highlands  of  Scot- 
land, have  ascended  Mont  Blanc,  and  stood  on  the  Campagna  at  Rome,  but 
I  have  never  seen  anything  so  surpassingly  lovely  as  this. 

Charles   Sumner,  on  Mt.  Holyoke,  Aug.  i,  1847 


But  the  emotions  excited  in  my  mind  at  Northampton  do  not  rest  with  the 
qualification  for  the  tiseful  or  beautiful.  There  is  that  in  your  scenery  which 
addresses  a  higher  principle,  the  highest  in  our  nature.  I  witnessed  it  in  all  its 
power  this  morning,  as  I  drove  in  an  open  carriage,  with  the  Governor,  through 
your  magnificent  meadows.  We  passed  first  through  a  sort  of  vapoury  sea,  which 
seemed  to  surge  over  the  face  of  the  plain,  and  as  it  melted  into  air  we  saw  at  a 
distance  wreath  after  wreath  of  silvery  mist,  moving  slowly  up  the  side  of  the 
hill.  It  seemed  as  if  Nature,  with  its  clouds  of  incense,  was  doing  homage  to  the 
mountain  majesty  of  Holyoke,  sparkling  as  he  was  with  a  diadem  of  dew-drops 
and  robed  in  the  purple  of  the  morn.  T  felt  as  if  man,  the  rational  worshiper, 
were  bound  to  unite  in  strains  of  vocal  adoration,  with  the  silent  anthems  of 
plain  and  stream  and  hill,  and  I  was  ready  to  repeat  the  lovely  words  which 
Milton  puts  into  the  mouths  of  our  first  parents: 

"Ye  mists  and  exhalations  that  now  rise 

From  vale  or  streaming  lake,  dusky  or  grey, 
■  Till  the  sun  paints  your  fleecy  skirts  with  gold. 

In  honor  to  the  world's  great  Author,  rise. 

Whether  to  deck  with  clouds  the  uncolored  sky, 

Or  wet  the  thirsty  earth  with  falling  showers, 

Rising  or  falling,  still  advance  His  praise  ! " 

Edward  Everett,  at  Agricultural  dinner,  at  Northampton,  Oct.  7,  1S52 


She,  with  her  fair  meadows  and  noble  streams,  is  lovely  enough,  but  she  owes 
her  surpassing  attraction  to  those  twin  summits  which  brood  her  like  living  pres- 
ences, looking  down  into  her  streets  as  if  they  were  her  tutelary  divinities,  dressing 
and  undressing  their  green  shrines,  robing  themselves  in  jubilant  sunshine  or  in 
sorrowing  clouds,  and  doing  penance  in  the  snowy  shroud  of  winter,  as  if  they 
had  living  hearts  under  their  rocky  ribs  and  changed  their  mood  hke  the  children 
of  the  soil  at  their  feet,  who  grow  up  under  their  almost  paternal  smiles  and 
frowns.  Happy  is  the  child  whose  first  dreams  of  heaven  are  blended  with  the 
evening  glories  of  Mt.  Holyoke,  when  the  sun  is  firing  its  treetops  and  gilding  the 
white  walls  that  mark  its  one  hurnan  dwelling. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 


MR.     C  A  M  IM  O  N  '  S      LETTERS 

THE     CELEBRATfON     AS     VIEWED 
B  7^     AN     ENGLISHMAN'S     EVES 


WHEN  Samuel  S.  Campion  of  Northampton,  England,  returned 
home  from  his  visit  to  this  country,  he  published  in  the 
Northampton  Mercury,  probably  the  oldest  paper  in  the 
world,  of  which  he  was  then  editor,  a  series  of  letters,  describing,  in  a 
very  interesting  way,  his  experiences.  From  these  letters  extracts 
have  been  made  in  succeeding  pages,  eliminating,  of  course,  the  re- 
ports of  his  addresses  at  the  different  gatherings,  as  these  have  already 
been  given,  in  consecutive  order,  in  previous  pages.  Mr.  Campion's 
first  letter  was  written  to  the  Mayor  and  Town  Council  of  his  residen- 
tial city,  and  w411  be  found  following  : 

©fticial  IReport 

At  the  monthly  meeting  of  the  Northampton  Town  Council,  on 
Monday,  Juh;  4th,  1904,  the  Town  Clerk  read  the  following  letter, 
which  had  been  received  by  the  Mayor  from  Alderman  Campion: 

To  THE  Worshipful  the  Mayor  (Councillor  Edward  Lewis,  J.  P.) 

June  30,  1904. 
Dear  Mr.  Mayor: 

As  your  ambassador,  representing  yourself,  the  Corporation,  and 
the  burgesses  of  my  native  town  at  the  City  of  Northampton,  Mass., 
on  the  occasion  of  the  celebration  of  the  250th  anniversary  of  its  set- 
tlement, on  June  5th,  6th  and  7th,  I  desire  to  report  to  you  the  cordial 
manner  in  which  I  was  received.  From  the  moment  of  my  setting 
foot  in  the  city  to  the  moment  of  my  departure  I  received  nothing 
but  the  most  graceful  courtesies  and  the  most  considerate  kindness. 
I  was  made,  as  your  representative,  the  honoured  guest  of  the  city; 
and  in  every  function  connected  with  the  Celebration  I  was  not  only 
placed  in  positions  of  honour,  but  the  kindliest  allusions  were  made 
to  my  presence  as  the  representative  of  the  mother  city  in  the  old 
country.  For  it  was  made  clear  that  Northampton,  Old  England, 
was  the  source  from  whence  sprang  Northampton,  Mass.  I  was  in- 
formed that  the  New  England  city  received  its  name  out  of  respect 
to  some  of  the  earliest  settlers  who  had  come  from  our  ancient  borough. 
I  was  careful  to  emphasize  the  fact  that  a  tie  no  less  strong,  between  the 


436  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

old  and  the  new  cities,  was  to  be  found  in  the  circumstance  that  Law- 
rence Washington,  an  ancestor  of  General  George  Washington,  was 
Mayor  of  our  borough  in  1533  and  1546.  Nor  did  I  forget  to  make  suit- 
able reference  to  the  Washington  tomb  at  Great  Brington  Church, 
with  its  coat  of  arms,  which  gave  the  idea  for  the  Stars  and  Stripes, 
and  to  other  historical  ties  between  Northamptonshire  and  the  United 
States.  At  an  important  Sunday-school  gathering  in  the  oldest  church 
of  Northampton  I  gave  greetings  to  the  Sunday-school  workers  and 
scholars  of  Old  Northampton.  His  Excellency  John  L.  Bates,  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Massachusetts,  was  also  present,  and  in  his  address  gave  me 
a  most  cordial  welcome  as  the  representative  of  the  old  mother  city. 
In  response  to  my  greetings,  the  large  assembly  stood  up  in  token 
of  their  approval  of  a  proposition  to  reciprocate  the  good  wishes  of 
which  I  was  bearer  to  the  whole  of  the  Sunday-school  workers  and 
scholars  of  Northampton,  Old  England.  And  through  you,  Mr.  Mayor, 
I  hope  I  may  be  permitted  to  convey  this  reciprocal  greeting  from 
the  Sunday  schools  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  as  an  example  of  one 
of  the  important  ties  which  bind  together  the  Old  and  the  New  Worlds. 
Northampton,  Mass.,  is  an  important  educational  centre.  Its 
educational  institutions  are  unique  in  character  and  excellence.  And 
I  was  glad  to  have  the  opportunity  of  addressing  800  pupils  of  the 
Grammar  and  High  schools  of  Northampton,  together  with  their  parents 
and  friends,  on  some  points  of  historic  interest  connected  with  the  old 
Borough  from  which  their  city  had  taken  its  name.  Similarly  it  was 
my  pleasure  to  speak  to  a  gathering  of  students  at  Smith  College, 
the  largest  educational  institution  for  young  womicn  in  the  world. 

Governor  Long,  ex-Secretary  of  the  United  States  Navv,  the 
official  orator  of  the  Celebration,  paid  cordial  tribute  to  the  old  mother 
town  and  its  representative — a  tribute  warmly  applauded  bv  a  crowd- 
ed and  influential  assembly  in  the  Academy  of  Music. 

At  the  chief  function,  on  Tuesday,  June  7th,  in  the  Parade,  I  was 
paired  off  with  Rear-Admiral  Cook,  a  distinguished  son  of  New 
Northampton — one  of  the  most  brilliant  naval  leaders  of  the  United 
States.  As  a  native  of  Old  Northampton,  I  ventured  to  hope  that 
the  conjunction,  whether  designed  or  accidental,  might  be  accepted 
as  typical  of  the  union  of  sympathy  and  interest  between  Northamp- 
ton, Old  England,  and  Northampton,  Mass.  At  the  luncheon  which 
followed,  where  addresses  were  delivered  by  His  Honour  Judge  Bas- 
sett  (who  presided),  His  Excellency  Governor  Bates,  His  Honour  H. 
C.  Hallett  (Mayor  of  the  city),  Rear-Admiral  Cook,  the  Rev.  Henry 
T.  Rose,  D.D.,  the  Rev.  President  Clark  Seelye  (Smith  college).  Dr. 
Joseph  H.  Sawyer,  Congressman  Gillett,  Colonel  Parsons,  and  myself, 
the  Mayor  made  the  following  graceful  reference : 

"To  the  ancient  city  of  Northampton  in  England,  which  confers 
upon  her  namesake  the  distinguished  honour  of  official  representation 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  437 

in  the  person  of  one  of  her  most  illustrious  sons,  we  present  the  assur- 
ances of  our  most  affectionate  regard." 

The  cablegram  conveying  the  heartiest  greetings  from  yourself, 
the  Council  and  the  burgesses,  on  the  occasion  of  the  Celebration,  was 
received  with  the  utmost  enthusiasm. 

In  conclusion,  permit  me  to  say  that  it  was  with  the  greatest 
pride  and  satisfaction  I  endeavoured  to  convey  to  the  authorities 
and  the  inhabitants  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  the  hearty  good  wishes 
and  sympathy  of  my  fellow-townsmen.  My  visit  was  one  of  unalloyed 
pleasure,  thanks  to  the  perfect  courtesy  and  the  most  gracious  hospi- 
tality extended  to  me,  as  your  representative.  The  occasion  and  its 
experiences  will  rank  amongst  the  most  precious  memories  of  mv  life. 

I  am,  dear  Mr.  Mayor, 

Always  sincerely  yours, 

S.  S.  Campion. 

The  Mayor,  in  a  few  appreciative  words,  moved  that  the  thanks 
of  the  Council  be  accorded  to  Mr.  Campion,  and  that  his  report  be 
entered  upon  the  minutes. 

The  ex-Mayor  seconded. 

Mr.  Smith  supported,  and  the  motion  was  carried  unanimously. 

Mr.  Campion  describes,  in  his  first  letter  to  his  home  paper,  how 
he  came  to  come  to  Northampton,  and  his  reception  here. 

By  great  good  fortune,  I  had  arranged  to  visit  the  World's  Pur- 
chase Exposition  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  U.  S.  A.,  just  about  the  time 
that  the  people  of  Northampton,  in  Massachusetts  State,  had  arranged 
to  celebrate  the  250th  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  their  citv.  I 
had  learned  the  fact  from  a  communication  which  was  directed  to 
"the  oldest  newspaper,  Northampton,  England,"  and  concluded  that, 
if  circumstances  were  propitious,  it  would  be  most  agreeable  to  be 
present  at  the  celebration  as  a  representative  of  the  old  English  Borough, 
from  which  the  American  city  took  its  name.  The  Mayor  of  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  the  Hon.  H.  C.  Hallett,  was  apprised  of  mv  intention 
to  be  at  St.  Louis,  and  on  my  arrival  at  Montreal  on  Sunday,  Mav 
22nd,  by  the  good  ship  Parisian,  of  the  Allan  Line,  I  received  a  tel- 
egram giving  me  a  cordial  invitation  to  be  the  guest  of  the  citv  on 
Sunday,  Monday,  and  Tuesday,  June  5th,  6th,  and  7th — the  davs 
fixed  for  the  celebration — and  it  was  signed  bv  the  Mavor  and  the 
City  Clerk  (Mr.  Egbert  L  Clapp). 

I  also  learned  from  the  telegram  that  an  invitation  to  the  Mavor 
and  Corporation  of  Northampton  to  send  a  representative  had  been 
dispatched  on  May  loth,  which  would  reach  England  only  after  I  had 
left,  so  that  it  would  be  too  late  for  our  Corporation  to  take  ofiticial 


438  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

action.  However,  I  wired  immediately  my  acceptance  of  the  invita- 
tion so  cordially  made,  with  the  full  conviction  that  any  greetings  I 
might  convey  to  the  inhabitants  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  would  be 
heartily  endorsed  by  the  Mayor,  the  Corporation,  and  the  burgesses 
of  my  own  native  town.  Having  then  visited  sundry  points  of  inter- 
est in  Canada  and  the  States,  and  the  St.  Louis  Exposition,  I  started 
f:om  Montreal  to  Northampton,  Mass.,  on  Saturday,  June  4th,  by 
Lake  Champlain  and  the  Connecticut  Valley,  by  the  Central  Vermont 
R.  R.  and  the  Boston  and  Maine  R.  R.  —  a  most  picturesque  route. 
I  started  from  Montreal  at  9  a.  m.  and  reached  Northampton  at  5.47 
p.   m.  —  nearly   nine   hours'   continuous  travelling. 

On  alighting,  I  was  at  once  spotted  by  a  gentleman,  who  might 
have  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cheeryble  Brothers — good  humor 
and  cordial  feeling  were  so  unmistakably  stamped  upon  his  face.  It 
was  Mr.  Hardy,  chairman  of  the  Reception  Committee,  and  with  him 
was  one  of  the  trusted  city  fathers,  Alderman  Babbitt.  They  gave 
me  a  hearty  welcome,  and  made  me  feel  "at  home"  in  a  twinkling. 
These  gentlemen  introduced  me  to  another  of  the  respected  citizens 
of  the  New  England  city,  Mr.  T.  G.  Spaulding,  formerly  City  Attorney, 
and  one  who,  I  afterwards  learned,  had  contributed  much  to  the  suc- 
cessful inception  and  preliminary  plans  of  the  Celebration.  I  was 
placed  under  his  care,  and  from  the  moment  of  my  arrival  to  the  mo- 
ment of  my  departure  I  was  the  happy  recipient  of  the  most  graceful 
courtesies  and  the  kindest  consideration  from  him.  I  felt  at  once 
that  there  was  a  sort  of  conspiracy  on  every  hand  to  give  me,  as  the 
representative  of  my  old  borough,  "a  good  time,"  and  I  need  hardly 
say  the  benevolent  conspiracy  was  successful.  I  was  installed  in 
most  comfortable  quarters,  at  the  Norwood  Hotel  —  an  hostelry  sur- 
rounded with  trim  shaven  lawns  and  stately  elms — in  the  city  and 
yet  in  the  country.  Mr.  Bowker,  the  landlord,  and  his  assistants, 
too,  left  no  stone  unturned  to  secure  my  comfort.  In  driving  from 
the  depot  to  the  hotel,  I  passed  the  spacious  Main  street,  which  I  found 
was  ablaze  with  colour — the  "Stars  and  Stripes,"  of  course,  in  the 
ascendant,  and  with  elaborate  preparations  for  illuminations  visible 
on  every  hand.  Needless  to  say,  I  entered  into  the  spirit  of  the  occa- 
sion very  heartily.  Its  sentiment  was  thoroughly  in  harmony  with 
my  own  feelings. 

Directly  after  dinner,  two  newspaper  representatives  waited  upon 
me  to  glean  my  impressions  of  what  I  had  already  seen.  As  breth- 
ren of  the  quill,  we  were  at  once  on  a  footing  of  camaraderie. 

Mr.  Campion  then  went  on  to  describe  the  Sunday  services  in 
the  churches,  the  Service  of  Song,   etc.,   and  wrote  as  follows: 

21  mew  of  tbe  Cit^ 

In  the  afternoon  a  heavy  storm  broke  the  sunny  peace  of  the  day. 
When  the  weather   had  cleared  up,  I   was  honoured  with  a  visit  from 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  439 

his  Honour  Mayor  Hallett  and  the  Mayoress,  both  of  whom,  in  the 
midst  of  the  pressing  engagements  of  the  occasion,  were  most  kind 
in  their  endeavour  to  make  my  stay  at  their  city  a  happy  one.  Sub- 
sequently, my  friend,  Mr.  Spaulding,  took  me  for  a  drive  around  the 
city,  that  I  might  obtain  some  idea  of  its  characteristics.  If  I  had 
wondered  before,  I  could  then  no  longer  be  surprised  at  the  pride  with 
which  Northamptonians  regard  their  city.  It  is  really  situated  in  a 
park.  The  main  business  street  is  at  least  120  feet  wide.  Its  resi- 
dential quarters  consist  of  so  many  "streets,"  sparsely  dotted  with 
artistic  dwellings,  almost  all  provided  with  attractive  verandahs,  and 
with  trim  shaven  lawns  running  down  to  the  roadway.  No  fences 
are  needed  to  divide  the  lawns  from  the  roads.  There  appear  to  be 
no  wanton  larrikins  to  trespass  on  forbidden  ground  and  do  mis- 
chief in  unfenced  gardens.  The  streets  are  so  many  roadways  through 
a  park.  All  the  people  appear  to  be  well-to-do,  comfortable.  With 
such  dwellings,  with  their  lawns  adorned  with  stately  trees,  just  now 
dressed  in  Spring's  verdant  glory,  there  is  more  than  a  suggestion  of 
an  Earthly  Paradise.  From  its  elevated  spots — say  from  Round 
Hill,  for  example — most  beautiful  views  are  visible.  I  was  prepared 
for  something  of  the  city's  surroundings,  in  the  glimpses  I  got  of  the 
picturesque  valley  of  the  Connecticut  as  I  came  down  on  the  train  on 
Saturday.  But  the  reality  far  exceeded  any  anticipation.  North- 
ampton, Old  England,  has  its  Nene;  but  venerable  as  the  Nene  is, 
and  not  without  attractive  characteristics  in  some  of  its  reaches,  it 
must  "pale  its  ineffectual  fires"  before  the  Connecticut  Valley,  which 
possesses  features  on  a  grander  and  more  picturesque  scale  altogether. 
Then  there  are  the  Meadows.  At  home  we  have  some  pride  in  our 
Meadows;  but  they  are  small  and  insignificant  compared  with  the  vast 
expanse  of  meadow  land  which  Northampton,  Mass.,  can  boast — 
meadows  which  have  obtained  for  it  the  cognomen  of  "the  Meadow 
City."  There  is  the  silver  ribbon  of  river,  in  its  course  of  some  450 
miles  from  source  to  sea  (in  Long  Island  Sound),  and  its  fertile  mead- 
ow lands,  and  then  beyond  ranges  of  protecting  hills,  the  highest  of 
which  are  Mount  Holyoke,  Mount  Tom,  and  Sugar-Loaf  Mountain. 
Here  was  a  civic  diamond  of  the  first  water,  in  a  setting  of  exquisite 
natural  beauty. 

Mr.  Campion  was  much  impressed  with  all  the  indoor  exercises, 
in  which  he  had  more  or  less  part,  and  after  the  children's  gathering 
in  the  tent,  he  was  taken  to  the  ball  game,  which  he  thus  refers  to: 

Subsequently  I  was  taken  to  see  a  game  of  baseball  between 
Springfield  and  Northampton.  Baseball  is  a  glorified  game  of  "round- 
ers," but  is  quite  on  a  par  with  cricket  in  the  skill  required,  and 
in  the  interest  evoked.  My  sympathies  were  patriotically  with  North- 
ampton, but  alack!  the  visitors  from  the  neighbouring  town  came  off 
victors.  It  cheered  me  to  learn,  however,  that  the  latter  have  not 
always  been  triumphant,  and  that  Northampton  can  boast  many 
excellent  players  at  the  American  national  pastime. 


440  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Concert  anD  TReception 

Of  this  he  says:  In  the  evening  there  was  a  grand  concert  at  the 
Anniversary  Pavihon  by  the  Northampton  Vocal  Club,  under  the 
directorship  of  Mr.  Ralph  L.  Baldwin.  It  was  a  very  fine  performance. 
The  Club  was  assisted  by  Mr.  Albert  E.  Brown,  basso  (of  Boston) 
—  an  Englishman,  whose  acquaintance  I  was  pleased  to  make  —  and 
by  Mrs.  Albert  E.  Brown  as  pianiste.  Rudyard  Kipling's  "Hymn 
before  action"  was  sung  to  music  composed  by  the  Director,  Mr. 
Baldwin — the  composition  impressed  everybody  as  being  a  splendid 
rendering  of  the  poet's  words.  I  was  told  the  "Hymn"  has  been 
sung   at   the   Crystal    Palace,    London,   to    Mr.    Baldwin's   setting. 

The  concert  just  lasted  an  hour.  Then  the  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts held  a  reception,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Bates,  Mayor  Hallett  and 
the  Mayoress;  and  I  was  courteously  asked  to  join  the  receiving  party. 
It  was  the  first  experience  I  had  had  of  the  American  plan  of  recep- 
tions, but  a  very  agreeable  one.  Adjutant  General  Dalton,  the  Chief 
of  the  Governor's  staff,  estimated  that  at  least  1,500  people  shook 
hands.  I  was  asked  whether  my  right  hand  did  not  ache.  I  replied 
that  it  did  not;  and  then  I  found  I  had  instinctively  caught  the  right 
knack  in  shaking  hands.  The  reception  gave  me  the  opportunity  of 
meeting  many  interesting  people  —  English  and  American.  I  was 
glad  to  meet  the  widow  of  my  old  friend,  Henry  Burt,  formerly  of 
Springfield  and  Northampton,  and  founder  of  "Among  the  Clouds," 
and  his  son,  also,  whom  I  had  met  in  Northampton,  Old  England, 
and  of  whom  I  had  pleasant  memories.  Several  English  ladies  and 
gentlemen,  too,  were  among  the  company,  and  these  hailed  the  pres- 
ence of  a  compatriot  with  satisfaction.  There  were  many  Americans 
whose  ancestors  had  come  from  the  old  country  within  recent  times; 
and  family  reminiscences  showed  me  how  deeply  the  affection  for 
the  old  country  is  rooted  in  thousands  of  American  hearts. 

I  spent  the  rest  of  the  evening  most  pleasantly  with  Colonel  and 
Mrs.  Williams,  and  with  members  of  the  Governor's  staff.  In  one 
of  them,  Brigadier  General  Otis  Marion,  it  was  a  pleasure  to  find  a 
friend  of  my  friend.  Major  Gratwicke,  of  Exeter.  An  invitation  to 
visit  him  at  Boston  I  was,  unfortunately  for  myself,  unable  to  accept. 
That  reminds  me,  too,  that  I  had  a  pressing  invitation  from  a  life- 
long friend,  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Albright,  D.D.,  of  Boston,  to  visit  him, 
and  take  part  in  some  meetings  there.  I  had  contemplated  getting 
a  day  in  at  Boston,  but  it  was  impossible  to  tear  myself  away  from 
Northampton  till  the  last  moment,  and  so  —  as  engagements  on  the 
other  side  prevented  my  prolonging  my  stay  in  the  States — I  was 
obliged  to  drop  Boston. 

^be  (3ran&  Da^  —  iparaDe  anD  Xuncbeon 

Tuesday  was  the  grand  day  of  the  celebrations.  A  symbolic 
parade,  on  a  magnificent  scale,  had  been  organized;  and  this  was  fol- 
lowed  by   a   grand   luncheon.     At   sunrise   the   echoes   were   awakened 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  441 

with  the  firing  of  salutes.  At  ten  o'clock,  under  Sheriff  Jairus  Clark, 
as  Chief  Marshal,  and  Captain  Richard  W.  Irwin,  as  Chief  of  Staff, 
with  a  staff  of  competent  aides,  the  procession  was  marshalled.  Never 
did  I  see  a  procession  marshalled  with  greater  smoothness  or  ease. 
Everything  "went  with  a  click,"  as  we  say,  in  common  parlance,  in 
this  country.  Never  did  the  city  present  a  more  remarkably  fine 
appearance.  I  have  seen  many  parades  and  processions,  including 
Lord  Mayor's  shows,  but  never  so  magnificent  and  so  completely 
finished  a  parade  as  that  which  trod  the  streets  of  Northampton,  Mass., 
on  Tuesday,  June  7th.  It  is  estimated  that  at  least  50,000  specta- 
tors were  present,  and  there  were  representatives  from  at  least  22 
States  of  the  Union,  who,  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in  the  city, 
had  come  to  do  it  honour.  The  Governor  (his  Excellency  J.  L.  Bates) 
was  necessarily  the  chief  figure  in  the  procession;  he  occupied  a  car- 
riage drawn  by  four  horses,  and  he  was  accompanied  by  the  Mayor, 
His  Honour  H.  C.  Hallett.  The  decorations  everywhere  were  most 
profuse,  and  brightness  and  joy  were  supreme. 

I  was  happy  to  be  allotted  to  a  carriage  in  which  my  compan- 
ions were  Rear  Admiral  Cook  and  Mr.  T.  G.  Spaulding,  both  of  them 
old  Northampton  boys.  Admiral  Cook  was  in  command  of  the  Brook- 
lyn at  the  Battle  of  Santiago,  and  his  brilliant  exploit  in  that  vessel 
on  that  occasion  is  a  matter  of  history.  It  was  easy  to  see  he  is  a  great 
favourite  at  Northampton.  We  were  taken  together  by  a  photog- 
rapher, and  the  picture  appeared  in  the  "Boston  Globe"  the  next 
day.  The  juxtaposition  was  not  without  interest.  Admiral  Cook, 
as  a  native  of  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  I,  as  a  native  of  Northamp- 
ton, Old  England,  formed  a  happy  conjunction  of  the  old  and  the 
new,  typical,  as  I  hope,  of  the  ties  which  bind  the  two  cities  in  sym- 
pathy and  interest.  It  was  very  pleasing,  at  various  points,  to  note 
the  enthusiasm  which  the  presence  of  the  representative  from  Old 
England  evoked — for  by  this  time  my  personality  had  become  fairly 
well  known.  It  was  all  a  friendly  recognition  of  the  old  town  and 
the  old  countrv.  Indeed,  in  one  case,  the  shout  was  heard,  "Three 
cheers  for  Old  England."  It  was  a  pleasure  to  be  the  recipient  of 
these  tributes  to  the  Mother  City  and  the  Mother  Country.  Some 
of  the  items  in  the  procession  were  illustrative  of  the  dangers  of  the 
old  settlement  (from  Indians)  and  of  the  life  of  the  old  colonists.  The 
industries  of  the  neighbourhood  were  illustrated  —  silk,  hosiery,  and 
prophylactic  tooth  brushes.  The  procession  was  a  mile  and  a  half 
in   extent,    and   took   an   hour  to   pass   any   given   point. 

After  describing  the  collation  at  the  tent,  his  own  and  other 
speeches  thereafter,  Mr.  Campion  writes: 

At  the  close  of  the  proceedings  described  in  my  last  letter,  I  paid 
a  flying  visit  to  Smith  College,  having  the  advantage  of  the  compan- 
ionship of  Mr.  Sidney  Bridgman,  as  cicerone.     But  of  this  more  anon. 


442  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

At  Mr.  Bridgman's  private  house  I  had  the  pleasure  of  an  introduc- 
tion to  Mrs.  Bridgman  and  several  ladies  interested  in  the  College 
for  Girls  at  Mount  Holyoke,  an  educational  institution  of  far-reaching 
usefulness.  I  was  interested  to  learn  that  Mr.  Bridgman  was  the 
pubhsher  of  Todd's  Student's  Manual — a  book  which  I  had  found  of 
inestimable  value  in  my  youth,  and  which  I  would  warmly  recommend 
to  students — especially  self-educating  students.  Its  author,  the  Rev. 
John  Todd,  was  a  minister  of  the  Jonathan  Edwards  Church — an 
offshoot  of  the  First  Church. 

Colonial  IReceptton 

In  the  evening,  the  members  of  the  Betty  Allen  Chapter  of  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  held  a  reception  at  the  City  Hall. 
The  hall  was  beautifully  decorated,  and  there  was  a  brilliant  assembly. 
Many  of  those  present  were  dressed  in  costumes  of  the  Revolutionary 
period,  and  the  effect  was  charming  and  piquant.  Who  was  Betty 
Allen?  That  was  the  first  question  which  rose  to  my  lips.  The  an- 
swer— she  was  a  lady  of  the  Revolution  who  had  seven  sons,  and  she 
gave  them  all  to  the  Revolution,  to  fight  for  American  Independence. 
One  of  them  was  "the  fighting  parson,"  who  appeared  to  be  equally 
at  home  in  the  field  or  in  the  pulpit.  One  lady  was  wearing  a  dress, 
which  an  ancestress  had  worn  at  a  ball  where  she  danced  with  Gen- 
eral George  Washington ;  and  she  carried  the  fan  which  the  lady  used 
on  the  same  occasion.  Surely  the  spirit  of  romance  was  there,  and 
I  was  not  slow  to  pay  my  homage  to  it.  I  was  kept  pretty  well  and 
happily  occupied  in  exchanging  reminiscences  and  ideas  with  many 
of  the  guests,  who  showed  their  interest  in  the  old  country  and  freely 
recognised  what  they  owed  to  it.  From  innumerable  quarters  I  had 
expressions  of  the  pleasure  which  w^as  felt  that  the  old  town  in  the 
old  country  should  be  represented  at  this  celebration.  The  pleasure 
was  mutual. 

m  ©ID  IbaDlc^ 

The  day  had  been  a  fairly  heavy  one,  what  with  the  excitements 
of  the  Parade,  the  post-prandial  exercises,  and  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  who,  as  I  remarked  more  than  once,  were 
enough  to  turn  any  man  into  a  revolutionary.  But  next  morning  at 
seven  o'clock  I  was  driven  by  Mr.  Edward  O.  Damon,  another  of 
Northampton's  kindliest  citizens,  to  Hadley — a  rural  outpost  of  the 
greater  city.  The  objects  of  interest  here  were — a  street,  a  church, 
and  a  house.  The  street  is  a  noble  avenue.  250  feet  or  more  wide 
— for  the  greater  part  overgrown  with  grass  and  guarded  with 
venerable  elms.  The  house  is  built  on  the  site  of  an  older  structure, 
over  a  cellar  in  which  it  is  related  Goffe  and  Whalley,  two  of  the  reg- 
icides responsible  for  the  execution  of  Charles  I.,  lay  hid  for  a  consid- 
erable time  from  those  who,  in  the  Second  Charles'  time,  sought  their 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  443 

blood.  The  church  is  associated  with  Goffe.  Whalley — the  tradition 
is  somewhat  hazy — appears  to  have  got  away.  But  Goffe  remained. 
On  one  occasion  the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  were  at  worship  in  the 
church,  when  the  Indians  made  their  appearance.  Goffe  observed 
them.  He  knew  that  if  the  people  were  caught  in  the  church  their 
doom  was  certain  and  his,  too.  So  sword  in  hand  he  made  for  the 
church  —  a  hundred  yards  or  so  distant — and  warned  the  worshippers. 
His  venerable  figure  made  him  appear  to  the  Indians  like  a  visitant 
from  another  world.  They  fled  in  superstitious  terror,  and  the  wor- 
shippers, hailing  Goffe  as  their  deliverer,  took  fresh  heart.  Here  was 
a  romantic  association  of  the  Stuarts  with  the  North  American  In- 
dians which  I  was  anxious  not  to  lose;  and  Mr.  Damon's  kindness  made 
my  pilgrimage  to  this  shrine  of  seventeenth  century  liberty  very  pleas- 
ant indeed. 

Bt  Smftb  College 

Back  to  breakfast,  and  before  half  past  eight  I  set  off  for  Smith 
College,  to  be  present  at  the  opening  exercises  and  to  fulfill  a  prom- 
ise to  address  one  of  the  classes.  Smith  College  is,  I  believe,  the  largest 
educational  institution  of  its  kind  in  the  world.  It  was  founded  on 
a  bequest  of  386,000  dollars  {£-j'j, 200)  under  the  will  of  the  late  Sophia 
Smith,  niece  of  Oliver  Smith,  who  had  before  left  a  fund  of  370,000 
dollars  (;^74,ooo)  for  indigent  boys  and  girls,  young  women  and  wid- 
ows. Sophia  Smith,  who  died  a  spinster,  left  her  money  for  the  higher 
education  of  girls,  with  the  result  that  she  has  been  the  means  of  found- 
ing a  magnificent  monument,  in  which  her  generous  spirit  will  live  to 
the  end  of  time  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  noble  women,  who,  through 
her  far-sighted  and  practical  sympathy  with  the  best  aspirations  of 
her  sex,  will  help  to  dominate  generations  yet  unborn  with  the  finest 
ideals.  There  are  1,100  young  ladies  in  the  institution,  who,  through 
accomplished  and  gifted  teachers,  under  President  L.  Clark  Seelye  — 
a  man  of  the  finest  character  and  great  attainments — have  the  oppor- 
tunity of  receiving  the  best  possible  teaching  on  the  subjects  included 
in  an  extensive  curriculum.  The  college  grounds  are  in  the  midst 
of  lovely  lawns  and  sheltering  trees — a  veritable  "Grove  of  Academe." 
The  institution  is  an  educational  idyll. 

I  breathed  the  prayer:  Would  that  some  Sophia  Smith  might 
arise  to  confer  a  similarly  noble  benefaction  on  my  own  old  city  at 
home. 

Every  morning  the  proceedings  of  the  day  are  opened  with  a 
brief  service.  The  chanting  of  a  Psalm,  the  reading  of  a  passage  of 
Sciipture,  a  hymn,  a  prayer,  and  the  girls  go  to  their  several  classes. 
It  is  all  very  simple,  yet  withal  impressive.  The  Psalms  are  arranged 
in  an  order,  which  exemplifies  and  emphasizes  the  successive  petitions 
of  the  Lord's  Prayer.      I  was  so  impressed  with  the  arrangement  that 


444  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

I   asked   permission   to   carry   one   away   with   me,   and   the   President 
very  kindly  gave  me  a  copy. 

But  the  students  have  disappeared  to  their  class-rooms.  I  am 
conducted  to  a  room  where  two  classes  are  assembled.  On  the  way 
I  am  anxious  to  know  upon  what  subject  it  would  be  most  agreeable 
I  should  speak.  I  find  the  class  is  engaged  just  now  in  considering 
the  best  methods  of  arriving  at  conclusions  on  any  given  subject. 
Happily  it  is  a  subject  on  which  I  feel  at  liberty  to  say  something, 
and  so  speak  for  a  limited  period  in  a  fashion  which  I  would  fain  hope 
was  not  without  a  grain  or  two  of  useful  suggestion.  To  me  it  was 
a  delightful  experience  to  speak  to  that  assembly  of  earnest  students, 
anxious  to  make  the  best  use  of  the  faculties  God  has  given  them. 
The  fact  that  this  subject  should  have  been  chosen  for  study  by  a 
class  of  young  ladies  seemed  to  me  to  admirablv  illustrate  one  of  the 
best  features  of  the  method  of  education,  which  I  had  before  under- 
stood was  generally  pursued  in  the  United  States — that  of  endeavour- 
ing at  every  point  to  draw  out  the  faculties  of  the  student.  It  goes 
a  great  way  to  explain  the  general  alertness  of  the  American  mind. 
While,  no  doubt,  there  are  teachers  in  our  English  schools  who  do 
attempt,  as  far  as  the  restrictions  of  the  Board  of  Education  permit 
them,  to  follow  out  the  same  principle,  it  is  not  carried  out  with  that 
systematic  constancy  which  is  to  be  found  in  the  States. 

/llbount  Mol^ofte 

In  the  meantime,  the  City  Clerk,  Mr.  Clapp  —  freed  from  the  more 
exiguous  claims  of  the  Celebration — had  been  devising  plans  for  giving 
me  a  pleasant  day  in  the  city  precincts.  He  and  Mr.  C.  H.  Pierce, 
of  the  Anniversary  Executive  Committee,  took  me  to  Mount  Holyoke, 
that,  like  another  Moses,  I  might  "view  the  landscape  o'er."  In 
parenthesis  I  should  like  to  say  a  word  of  Mr.  Clapp,  to  whom  I  am 
indebted  for  many  kindnesses.  For  21  years,  ever  since,  indeed, 
the  incorporation  of  the  city,  he  has  filled  the  important  office  of  city 
clerk,  a  fact  which  speaks  volumes  for  the  unbounded  confidence  of 
his  fellow-citizens — for  it  is  an  office  subject  to  annual  popular  elec- 
tion. He  is  an  old  soldier  of  the  Civil  War.  As  a  lad  of  18  he  enlisted, 
and  for  four  years  he  was  actively  engaged  with  the  army  which  ope- 
rated in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico — part  of  the  time  in  the  infantry,  and 
for  two  years  as  a  cavalryman,  closing  his  service  as  a  lieutenant  in 
the  cavalry.  The  soldier's  spirit  runs  in  the  blood,  for  he  is  a  descend- 
ant on  his  father's  side  from  Major  Jonathan  Clapp,  one  of  the  heroes 
of  the  Revolution,  and  his  mother  was  a  descendant  of  General  Seth 
Pomeroy,  another  Northampton  hero  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
General  Pomeroy,  although  near  70,  insisted  on  taking  a  share  in  the 
battle  of  Bunker's  Hill.  Northampton  has  in  Mr.  Clapp  an  officer 
of  exceptional  ability  and  great  public  spirit.  To  resume,  a  pleas- 
ant  carriage  drive  round  the  outskirts  of  the  city,   which  revealed   a 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  445 

wealth  of  natural  beauty,  I  very  much  enjoyed,  brought  us  to  the 
foot  of  Mount  Holyoke.  Some  400  feet  we  traveled  by  a  circuitous 
mountain  road,  till  we  came  to  the  foot  of  the  funicular — which  runs 
some  600  feet  up  the  mountain  side,  almost  perpendicularly.  Arrived 
at  the  simimit,  we  found  ourselves  in  Prospect  House,  with  all  the 
conveniences  of  a  mountain  hotel.  Both  from  the  rooms  and  the 
platform  outside  there  are  extensive  views  of  the  Connecticut  valley 
and  a  wide  surrounding  country.  From  the  summit  can  be  seen 
mountains  in  four  states,  and  thirty-eight  towns — thirty  in  Massa- 
chusetts and  eight  in  Connecticut.  It  is  a  place,  "where  every  pros- 
pect pleases."  Unfortunately  the  atmosphere  is  humid,  a  haze  hangs 
over  the  hills,  and  our  views  are  therefore  circumscribed.  Yet  what 
is  seen  is  extensive  enough  and  beautiful  enough  to  confirm  the  im- 
pressions I  had  formed  of  the  infinite  charm  of  the  position  in  which 
Northampton  is  set.  I  could  quite  understand  from  what  I  saw  the 
force  of  Mr.  Spaulding's  statement  that  you  might,  taking  Northamp- 
ton as  a  centre,  drive  out  in  over  120  directions  on  as  many  days  and 
find  fresh  revelations  of  natural  beauty  in  each.  From  the  heights 
of  Mount  Holvoke  one  commanded  insights  into  vast,  dim  and  mys- 
tic distances,  full  of  interest  and  full  of  possibilities  of  enjoyment  to 
the  imaginative  soul. 

In  returning  from  Mount  Holyoke,  we  were  ferried  across  the 
Connecticut  River — the  Hockanum  Ferry  —  quite  a  refreshing  touch 
of  old-world  methods  of  crossing  the  stream.  Horses,  carriage,  and 
passengers  were  passed  on  to  the  raft,  and  were  drawn  over  by  a  wire 
rope.  Here  the  river  is  about  1,000  feet  wide.  We  were  encouraged 
bv  the  story  that  horses  had,  before  now-,  been  frightened  into  rushing 
off  the  raft  into  the  stream — "out  of  the  frying  pan  into  the  fire" — 
to  the  no  small  peril  of  passengers.  Our  horses  were,  happily,  of 
soberer  stuff,  and,  under  the  guidance  of  a  gentleman  of  colour,  we 
were  safely  conveyed  over,  without  any  risk  of  being  ferried  o'er  the 
Styx,  as  yet. 

/Ilbount  tTom 

At  the  City  Hall,  we  found  the  Mayor  and  several  other  members 
of  the  civic  body  awaiting  us.  Under  the  kindly  and  helpful  escort 
of  these  gentlemen  we  next  turned  our  attention  to  Mount  Tom  — 
another  of  the  mountain  sentinels  which  Nature  has  provided  the 
city.  Mount  Tom  is  reached  by  a  system  of  electric  cars.  First  we 
take  the  cars  which  run  from  Northampton  to  Springfield — a  distance 
of  17  miles.  The  track  is  parallel  to  the  Boston  and  Maine  Railway, 
and  runs  by  the  side  of  the  ordinary  road.  The  competition  supplied 
by  the  cars  has  resulted  in  a  considerable  reduction  of  fares  on  that 
line  between  these  two  points.  "Do  the  company  running  the  cars 
pay  any  subsidy  to  the  public  coffers?"  I  asked.  "No,"  was  the 
reply.     It  is  considered  that  the  public  gets  its  quid  pro  quo  in  the 


446  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

increased  facilities  of  locomotion  —  the  added  convenience  of  commun- 
ication between  the  different  places  en  route.  At  the  foot  of  Mount 
Tom  we  change  for  another  electric  car  run.  This  takes  us  to  the  lower 
levels  of  the  mountain,  and  here  we  have  a  large  acreage  laid  out  as 
a  public  park,  and  as  a  place  of  public  entertainment.  The  State 
has  made  a  reservation  of  some  1,500  acres  on  Mount  Tom,  for  the 
healthful  resort  of  the  inhabitants  of  Northampton  city  and  the  dis- 
trict forever.  I 'could  not  help  envying  the  inhabitants  of  North- 
ampton city  the  possession  of  this  priceless  boon.  One  more  change 
is  made,  and  the  ascent  to  the  top  is  affected  by  a  trolley  railway. 
The  road  to  the  top  has  given  us  glimpses  of  countless  beauties  in  the 
valley  of  the  Connecticut.  On  the  shores  we  see  dotted  here  and 
there  the  summer  houses  of  the  business  men  of  Springfield,  North- 
ampton and  other  towns  in  the  district.  There  is  a  Canoe  club-house, 
for  canoeing  on  the  Connecticut  is  one  of  the  pleasures  of  the  district. 
But  when  we  have  reached  the  summit  our  hopes  of  a  glorious  view 
are  doomed  to  disappointment.  The  rains  of  the  last  few  days  have 
encouraged  the  mists  to  rise,  and  from  the  altitude  of  Mount  Tom  — 
clear  and  beautiful — we  look  down  on  a  magnificent  display  of  mi.st, 
vague,  immense.  Now  and  again  there  are  rifts  in  the  grey,  and  we 
see  Kenilworth  —  a  castle  built  on  the  pattern  of  that  well-known 
historic  structure  in  England — the  town  of  Springfield,  with  its  roofs 
shining  under  brief  spells  of  sunshine,  and  snatches  of  the  Connecticut 
valley  on  both  sides — dreams  of  natural  loveliness,  touches  of  artistic 
beauty.  The  view,  or  rather  the  views — for  they  are  various  from 
most  sides  of  the  top — form  the  chief  source  of  pleasure  on  Mount 
Tom,  gratifying  the  love  for  the  beautiful  and  supplying  endless  sources 
of  food  for  the  imagination.  But  there  is  ample  provision  for  music, 
dancing,  and  other  amusements  in  the  Festival  Hall  here,  under  the 
enterprising  management  of  Mr.  Bowker  of  the  Norwood.  I  was 
disappointed  not  to  see  all  the  natural  beauties  which  Mount  Tom 
brings  within  the  range  of  human  vision,  but  if  what  I  did  not  see 
at  all  approaches  the  sample — that  which  I  did  see — then  in  this 
mountain  peak  Northampton  possesses  another  asset  of  inestimable 
value — another  fascination  added  to  the  multitudinous  charms  of  the 
Meadow  City. 

XLbc  jfinal  jfunction 

But  the  longest  of  days  must  have  an  ending.  I  had  been  breath- 
ing Northampton  air,  imbibing  Northampton  traditions,  and  the 
cjuestion  was  raised  whether  I  could  not  stay  another  month.  Whether 
it  would  have  ended  in  my  becoming  an  American  citizen,  or  whether 
I  should  have  succeeded  in  annexing  Northampton,  Mass.,  to  the 
British  Empire,  I  will  not  pretend  to  say.  It  is  a  ciuestion  which 
must    remain    forever    unsolved.     The    Mayor,    who,    although    not    a 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  447 

native  of  Northampton,  has  more  than  justified  the  choice  of  its  citi- 
zens in  the  splendid  way  in  which  he  has  risen  to  the  occasion,  enter- 
tained us  to  an  informal  closing  dinner  at  Rahar's  Inn,  where  the 
genius  of  a  cordial  hospitality  presides.  The  toasts  were  few,  the 
speeches  witty  in  their  brevity.  I  tried  to  express  in  a  few  words 
the  deep  sense  of  obligation  under  which  I  had  been  placed  by  the 
Mayor,  the  City  Clerk,  other  civic  authorities,  and  all  whom  I  had 
met.  If  ever  a  man  ran  a  danger  of  being  "killed  by  kindness"  I 
was  that  man,  and  if  I  were  to  escape  at  all  it  was  time  I  was  off.  The 
memory  of  the  overwhelming  kindness  I  had  received  can  never  be 
effaced.  The  Mayor  and  other  gentlemen  were  good  enough  to  say 
my  presence  had  been  of  some  service  to  the  Celebration,  and  that  they 
felt  indebted  to  me  for  the  spirit  in  which  I  had  associated  myself 
with  their  efforts. 


/IRacblne  Uotinci 

Subsec^uently,  at  my  rec[uest,  I  was  initiated  into  the  mysteries 
of  the  American  voting  machine.  So  many  of  the  officers  of  the  State, 
or  of  the  City,  are  subjected  to  direct  election,  that  the  work  of  voting 
is  a  much  more  extensive  operation  than  with  us.  Apparently  more 
complicated,  it  is  yet  most  simple  when  once  you  know  the  modus 
operandi;  and  the  machine  calculates  with  unerring  accuracy.  There 
are  seven  wards  in  the  city,  and  within  seven  minutes  of  the  closing 
of  the  poll  Mr.  Clapp  has  known  the  results  of  an  election  in  the  whole 
of  the  wards.  Within  14  minutes  of  the  closing  of  the  poll,  he  has 
known  the  results  of  a  State  election  in  the  city.  By  the  courtesy 
of  Mr.  Charles  Herrick  and  his  assistant,  Mr.  Rhoads,  I  was  shown 
the  working  of  the  Bardwell  Votometer,  the  machine  employed.  I 
could  not  forbear  asking  Mr.  Herrick  whether  he  had  any  reason  to 
suppose  he  was  descended  from  the  well-known  lyric  poet  of  the  sev- 
enteenth century;  but  he  could  not  say.  I  do  not  purpose  to  attempt 
to  describe  the  machine  on  this  occasion.  It  would  be  exceedingly 
difficult  to  do  so  on  paper.  Ocular  demonstration  seems  absolutely 
necessary  to  the  complete  understanding  of  it.  Mr.  Clapp  explained 
to  me  that  when  the  machine  was  decided  upon  practical  lessons  were 
given  the  voters  before  an  actual  election  was  held;  much  as,  when 
the  franchise  was  extended  to  the  English  counties,  lessons  in  voting 
by  ballot  were  given  all  over  the  country  for  the  benefit  of  the  new 
voters.  I  satisfied  myself  that  the  working  of  the  machine  was  ex- 
ceedingly simple,  that  it  is  impossible  to  tamper  with  it,  and  that  it 
works  with  unerring  accuracy.  The  machine  is  not  adopted  every- 
where in  the  States.  Its  use  is  permissible,  under  State  law,  but  only 
such  machines  can  be  used  as  are  sanctioned  by  a  Commission  ap- 
pointed by  the  State.  Northampton  is  one  of  the  pioneers  in  machine 
voting. 


448  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

XLbc  Ibfstorical  Collection 

A  historical  collection  of  great  interest  was  got  together  in  con- 
nection with  the  Celebration.  Mr.  Gere,  an  eminent  antiquarian, 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  historical  localities,  and  Mr.  Thomas 
Munroe  Shepherd,  the  chairman  and  chief  curator  of  the  indoor  ex- 
hibit. The  many  objects  on  view  had  been  lent  by  the  descendants 
of  the  first  settlers  and  other  old  families.  A  cane,  with  pewter  mount- 
ing, had  belonged  to  Captain  John  King,  described  as  born  in  North- 
ampton, England,  in  1629,  settling  in  Northampton,  Mass.  —  in  the 
thoroughfare  afterwards  known  as  King  street — in  1654.  It  was  lent 
by  George  Warner  King,  Middleport,  New  York.  Captain  King  is 
said  to  have  himself  descended  from  Sir  John  King,  who  was  at  one 
tim.e  Secretary  for  Ireland,  in  Elizabeth's  reign.  His  son.  Lieutenant 
John  King,  was  a  noted  scout  in  the  Indian  wars.  Then  there  was  a 
precious  case,  containing  knee-buckles  and  shoe-buckles,  originally 
worn  by  General  George  Washington.  They  were  given  by  his  step- 
daughter, Nellie  Custis,  as  a  memento  of  her  step-father,  to  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  St.  George  Tucker,  of  Williamsburg,  Virginia,  great-grand- 
father of  Mrs.  John  S.  Hitchcock.  There  was  also  General  Burgoyne's 
sword,  lent  by  Samuel  D.  Smith  of  Hadley,  Mass.  This  sword  was 
presented  by  General  John  Burgoyne  to  General  Porter  of  Hadley, 
after  the  surrender  of  Saratoga.  Another  of  the  relics  was  a  pewter 
plate,  lent  by  Mr.  T.  M.  Shepherd.  It  was  originally  brought  from 
Blois,  France,  and  once  belonged  to  the  Pomeroys,  who  settled  in 
Northampton  in  1671. 

©ft 

On  Thursday  morning,  June  9th,  I  started  from  Northampton  on 
my  way  home.  I  was  accompanied  to  the  train  by  Mr.  Clapp,  the 
City  Clerk,  and  Mr.  Spaulding.  In  cordial  words  of  farewell,  I  again 
endeavoured  to  express  my  deep  sense  of  the  overwhelming  kindness 
I  had  received,  my  admiration  of  the  city,  the  most  beautiful  I  had 
seen  in  all  my  travels,  and  my  appreciation  of  the  magnitude,  beauty, 
and  fine  feeling  of  the  Celebration.  But,  frankly,  I  felt  that  words 
were  utterly  inadequate.  I  can  only  say  that  the  Northampton  of 
Old  England  has  every  reason  to  be  proud  of  its  namesake  in  the  New 
World. 

S.  S.  C. 


My   heart  is  thirsty   for  that  noble   pledge. 

Julius  C--esar 


That   man 's   the   best   cosmopolite 
Who   loves   his   native   country   best. 


Tennyson 


The   patriot's   boast,    where'er   we   roam, 
His   first   best   country   ever  is   at   home. 

Goldsmith 


I    sing   New    England,    as   she   lights   her   fire 

In    every    Prairie's   midst;    and    where   the    bright 

Enchanting   stars   shine   pure   through   Southern   night, 

She   still   is   there,    the   guardian   on   the   tower, 

To   open   for   the   world   a   purer  hour. 

William  Ellerv  Channing 


My  country  is  the  world;   my  countrymen  arc  all  mankind. — -William 
Lloyd  Garrison 


The  soil  out  of  which  such  men  as  he  are  made  is  good  to  be  born  on,  good 
to  live  upon,  good  to  die  for  and  good  to  be  buried  in. —  Holmes  on  Garfield 


That  this  nation,  under  God,  shall  have  a  new  birth  of  freedom,  and 
that  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people,  and  for  the  people,  shall  not 
perish  from  the  earth. — Abraham  Lincoln 


Our  country,  however  bounded  or  described,  and  be  the  measurements 
more  or  less — still  our  country,  to  be  cherished  in  all  our  hearts,  to  be 
defended  by  all  our  hands.  —  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  at  Faneuil  Hall,  July 
4.  1845 


"Long  may   our  land   be   bright 
With   freedom's   holy   light; 
Protect   us   by   Thy   inight. 
Great   God,    our   King!" 


A  LIST  OF  VISITORS  TO  THE  CELEBRA 
TION    FROM    OUTSIDE    THE   COUNTY 

IT  has  been  considered  desirable  to  publish  at  least  a  partial  list 
of  those  outside  the  county  who  attended  the  Celebration.  It  was 
obviously  impossible  to  include  all  of  even  those  who  registered, 
and  therefore,  in  the  case  of  such  no  names  of  those  who  came  from  with- 
in a  radius  of  fifteen  miles  have  been  taken.  The  few  exceptions  from 
near-by  towns  were  reported  to  the  newspapers  by  friends  with  whom 
they  were  entertained.  It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  over  four  hundred, 
or  a  little  more  than  one-tenth  of  the  whole  number  of  visitors  regis- 
tered at  the  City  Hall,  by  the  card  index,  came  from  the  city  of  Spring- 
field, and  most  of  these  seem  to  have  been  drawn  to  Northampton 
on  this  occasion,  by  ties  of  real  interest,  which  can  be  understood 
from  the  fact  that  Springfield  was  the  mother  town,  and  even  now 
contains  many  people  of  former  Northampton  citizenship.  The 
daughter  towns  of  Easthampton,  Southampton,  Westhampton,  con- 
tributed a  large  share  of  those  registered,  and  they  came  from  the 
oldest  families,  showing  the  real  interest  of  kindred,  and  it  would 
have  been  a  pleasure  to  have  included  their  names  in  this  book,  but 
the  volume  would  have  been  swelled  much  beyond  its  limits;  while 
Amherst,  Hatfield  and  Hadley  neighbors  must  have  felt  slighted  if 
they  had  not  then  been  included;  as  also  Holyoke,  which  sent  several 
hundred. 

The  following  list  of  over  one  thousand  names  is  alphabetically 
arranged.  A  considerable  number  of  these  were  not  registered  at  the 
City  Hall,  and  have  been  obtained  from  other  sources.  When  it  is 
considered  that  the  list  of  those  who  registered  alone  amounts  to  about 
4,000,  some  idea  may  be  had  of  the  great  crowd  of  visitors  who  were 
in  the  city  Celebration  week. 

Many  names  of  those  in  Springfield  and  other  cities  are  not  in- 
cluded in  the  list  here  given,  because  the  full  name  was  not  registered. 
It  would  have  been  well  if  the  committee  in  charge  had  called  for  the 
full  name.  Such  name  would  have  been  of  much  greater  value  for 
future  reference,  and  some  of  those  who  registered  were  so  thoughtful 
as  to  see  this  and  gave  their  full  names  voluntarily,  many  married 
women  being  so  good  as  to  give  their  maiden  names  also. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


451 


Zbc  Xist 

Mrs.  George  I.  Abbott 

Mrs.  William  T.  Ahearn     . 

William  Ahearn 

Mrs.  Alfred  vViken 

Mrs.  T.  M.  Albee       .      .      . 

Robert  E.  B.  Alben 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  E.  Albro 

Mrs.  E.  H.  Alden   .   .   . 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Alden   .   .   . 

Mrs.  Herbert  C.  Alderman 

Mrs.  John  A.  Aldrich     . 

William  O.  Aldrich 

Harry  M.  Alexander     . 

Miss  Effie  Deans  Allan     . 

Rev.  Arthur  H.  Allen 

Mrs.  Catherine  Allen 

Charles  T.  Allen 

Mrs.  Frank  R.  Allen 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Edward  Allen 

Miss  Susan  B.  Allen 

Miss  Margaret  Ames 

Mrs.  W.  J.  Angell     . 

T.  A.  Appleton     .... 

Miss  Bertha  May  Arnold  . 

Clarence  H.  Arnold 

Miss  Elizabeth  Parker  Arnold 

Charles  P.  Atkins     . 

Mrs.  Cora  P.  Atkins 

Mrs.  Frederic  C.  Atkins 

Mrs.  George  D.  Atkins 

Miss  Lillian  Atkins 

Miss  Sarah  M.  Atkins    . 

Miss  M.  Jennie  Atkinson    . 

Miss  Fannie  Augur 

Miss  H.  Ella  Baab    . 

Alexander  H.  Baker 

C.  Sumner  Baker 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edgar  Baker 

Lester  D.  Ball    .... 

Miss  Mary  Ball 

Miss  Rena  S.   Ball 

George  E.  Ballou 

James  Ballou        .... 

Miss  Freda  C.  Bancroft 


.  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

.  Norwich,  Conn. 

.  Norwich,  Conn. 

.  Boston 

.  Newfane,  Vt. 

.  Wilhrnansett 

.  Springfield 

.  Millers  Falls 

.  Springfield 

.  Westfield 

.  Springfield 

.  Springfield 

.  New  York 

.  Holyoke 

.  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island 

.  Holyoke 

.  Manchester,  N.  H. 

.  New  York 

.  Somerville 

.  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

.  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

.  Chicopee  Falls 

.  Beverly 

.  Housatonic 

.  New  Britain,  Conn. 

.  Westfield,  N.  J. 

.  Springfield 

.  Hartford,  Conn. 

.  Hartford,  Conn. 

.  Boston 

.  Hartford,  Conn. 

.  Hartford,  Conn. 

.  Beverly 

.  New  Haven,  Conn. 

.  Lawrence 

.  Turners  Falls 

.  Springfield 

.  Rockland 

.  Springfield 

.  Sunderland 

.  Worcester 

.  Springfield 

.  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

.  Philadelphia 


452 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Mrs.  Martha  Bates  Smith    Bard- 
well     Holyoke 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiram  Bardwell      .  Whately 

Charles  W.  Barker        ....  Greenfield 

Miss  Ella  B.  Barker      ....  Springfield 

Miss  Helen  A.  Barker         .      .      .  Somerville 

Miss  Helen  Mae  Barker    .      .      .  Dorchester 

George  H.  Barney Springfield 

Charles  H.  Barrows       ....  Springfield 
Mrs.  Jeanie  Raynor  Barrows  and 

DAUGHTER Springfield 

Mrs.  a.  D.  Bartlett        ....  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Alice  E.  Bartlett       .      .      .  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

George  P.  Bartlett        ....  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Marion  W.  Bartlett  .      .      .  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Walter  L.  Bartlett  .      .      .  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Miss  Gertrude  Bates     ....  Wellington,  Vt. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Bayley  Thomaston,  Conn. 

Charles  A.  Beaman         ....  Springfield 

Miss  Nancy  E.  Beebe     ....  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  and    Mrs.  Belanger      .      .      .  Chicopee  Falls 

Oliver  K.  Belcher  ....  Chicopee 

Mrs.  William  C.  Belden      .      .      .  Springfield 

Miss  Dorothy  Belden  .      .      .  Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  Belden    .  Whately 

Miss  Anna  Belden Whately 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alvah  N.  Belding   .  Rockville,  Conn. 

Joseph  Belisle Worcester 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  H.  Bell       .  Southampton 

Mrs.  Aura  Belleville    ....  Newport,  N.  H. 

Norman  A.  Benard Fairview 

Mrs.  Ray  S.  Benjamin    ....  Suffield,  Conn. 

Mrs.  a.  S.  Bennett Beaufort,  S.  C. 

Miss  Grace  A.  Bennett       .      .      .  Beaufort,  S.  C. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benoit       ....  Springfield 

John  Bergeson Boston 

A.  Catherine  Berry        ....  Bar  Mills,  Me. 

Miss  M.  E.  Biddle Springfield 

George  A.  Bigelow         ....  Philadelphia 

Miss  Jane  A.  Bigelow  .      .      .  Philadelphia 

Miss  Mayme  E.  Binns      ....  Gardner 

Frank  M.  Bird Canton 

Rev.  Richard  E.  Birks         .      .      .  Deerfield 

William  Bliss Troy,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Bertha  Bliss Troy,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Anna  C.  Bliss Philadelphia 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  453 

Miss  Sunshine  Blyth     ....  New  York 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  C.  Bodman  New  York 

Miss  Alice  Bolter Hartford,  Conn. 

Grey  Boulton Lloyds, London, E.C., England 

Charles  Boyden         Springfield 

Dr.  Joseph  N.  Boyer       ....  Springfield 

Amos  H.  Brackett Oakdale 

C.  Ives  Bradley         Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  F.  Brady Austin,  Texas 

Miss  Florence  M.  Branning    .      .  Springfield 

William  J.  Bray         Ware 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  E.  Breault      .  Woonsocket,  R.  L 

Henry  M.  Brewster  ...  Springfield 

Mrs.  Esther  Day  Brickett       .      .  West  Springfield 

Joseph  C.  Bridgman         ....  Hyde  Park 

Mrs.  E.  a.  Bridgman       ....  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

RuTHVEN  Bridgman         ....  Belchertown 

James  Briggs         Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  H.  Brock      .  Lynn 

Charles  Brodeur Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Miss  Eloise  Brome Suffield,  Conn. 

George  W.  Brooks Chicopee  Falls 

William  F.  Brooks Granville 

Mrs.  Alice  T.  Brown      ....  Springfield 

Charles  H.  Brown,  Jr.         ...  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Clifford  Brown         Cheshire,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Henry  Bush  Brown    .      .      .  Milton 

Lester  T.  Brown Shelburne  Falls 

Miss  Maria  Brown Springfield,  Ohio 

Nathan  Brown New  York 

Paul  F.  Brown St.  Louis,  Mo.  1 

Frederick  W.  Bruggerhof       .      .  Noroton,  Conn.  j 

Mrs.  Orville  C.  Brush         .      .      .•  Holyoke  i  i 

James  A.  Bryan,  Jr Springfield  ! 

M.  A.  Bryant Winnipeg,  Canada 

John  Buchanan Londonderry,  Ireland 

Walter  E.  Buck Conway  < 

Bernard  Buckley Troy,  N.  Y. 

Fred  W.  Buddemeyer     ....  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  ' 

Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Bull        ....  Winsted,  Conn. 

George  L.  Bullard Spencer 

Mrs.  Jeannette  Brewer  Bullard  Spencer 

Byron  A.  Burdick     .  ■    .      .      .      .  Springfield 

Rudolph  Burgess New  York 

Miss  Annie  Burke Maiden 

James  M.  Burke         Greenfield 


454 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Thomas  F.  Burke 
Mrs.  Ida  H.  Burnett 
Mrs.  E.  N.  Burnham 
Miss  Josephine  E.  Burns     . 
Mrs.  Charles  C.  Burr    . 
Miss  Urania  S.  Burrows 
Peter  Bursie        .... 
Mrs.  Belle  M.  Burt        .      . 
Esbon  J.  Burt       .... 
Mrs.  Henry  M.  Burt 
Frank  Hunt  Burt     . 
Orsamus  C.  Burt 
Mrs.  L.  W.  Bush         .      .      . 
Arthur  Gordon  Butler  and 
Hunt  M.  Butler 
George  H.  Cahill 
John  C.  Calhoun 
Raymond  E.  Cameron 
John  Campbell     .... 
Miss  Mary  Campion  . 
Eugene  F.  Cantrell 
William  J.  Cantwell 
Mrs.  Walter  N.  Capen 
Rene  J.  Cardinal 
Martha  Falconer  Latimer 

Carlisle 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  E.  Carl 

John  M.  A.  Carmody 

Herbert  L.  Carpenter 

Peter  Carrier 

Herbert  A.  Carson 

Rev.  John  Burr  Carruthers 

George  W.  Carter    . 

Richard  C.  Carvel    . 

J.  Preston  Carver,  M.D. 

Miss  Mary  T.  Casey        .      . 

Karl  E.  Casey      .... 

Miss  Ella  G.  Cashuff     . 

Mrs.  Peter  K.  Cashuff 

Miss  Grace  Caswell 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  B.  Casw 

James  W.  Cavanaugh 

Herbert  H.  Chabot 

Miss  Jennie  Chabot 

Roy  Chambers       .... 


SON 


sle 


Springfield 
Chicopee  Falls 
New  Dorchester 
Holyoke 
Newton  Center 
Shelburne  Falls 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Springfield 
Westfield 
Newton 
Newton 
Plainfield 
Brookline,  Vt. 
Caldwell,  N.  J. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Meriden,  Conn. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Providence,  R.  L 
Brattleboro,  Vt. 
Waterbury,  Conn. 
Greenfield 
New  York 
Noroton,  Conn. 
Woburn,  Mass. 


New  Haven,  Conn. 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

.  Holyoke 

.  Baltimore,  Md. 

.  Boston 

.  Utica,  N.  Y. 

.  South  Deerfield 

.  Arhngton,  N.  J. 

.  Chicago,  111. 

.  Simsbury,  Conn. 

.  Springfield 

.  Springfield 

.  Westfield 

.  Westfield 

.  Keene,  N.  H. 

ELL  Boston 

.  Chicopee  Falls 

.  Worcester 

.  Worcester 

.  Westfield 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


455 


ARK 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  R.  Chamber- 
lain       

Lillian  G.  Chandler       .... 

Arthur  B.  Chapin 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  G.  Chapman     . 

Emil  Charland 

Mrs.  Emilie  G.  Chase  .... 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  H.  Chase    .      .      . 

Fred  W.  Cheever 

Sylvia  Le  Chestnut  .... 
Henshaw  B.  Chilson  .... 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  W.  Cissel    . 

Francis  Clapp 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Claflin. 

Thomas  J.  Clair         

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  P.  Clark 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  W.  Clark 

Mrs.  Sidney  L.  Clark 

Miss  Susan  Tyler  Clark     . 

Miss  Alice  Clark 

Edward  Clark      .... 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  B.  Cl.^ 

Charles  Hopkins  Clark 

Mrs.  Clifford  Enoch  Clark 

Edward  J.  Clark 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ezra  E.  Clark 

EsTus  G.  Clark  and  family 

Howard  W.  Clark     . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lyman  N.  Clark 

Mrs.  Robert  L.  Clark    . 

Master  Robert  Clark 

Wells  C.  Clark    .... 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  S.  Clark  . 

Inez  E.  Clark       .... 

Col.  Isaac  Edwards  Clarke 

James  A.  Clarke 

Miss  Louise  AVatson  Clarke 

William  E.  Clavez    . 

Mrs.  T.  S.  Cleaveland    . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Cluny     . 

William  B.  Coburn 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  I.  Codding 

Lillian  Pansy  Codding 

Edward  W.  Cole 

Leicester  Collins 

John  J.  Collins    .... 


New  Haven,  Conn. 

Woodstock,  Mass. 

Holyoke 

Springfield 

Montreal 

North  Uxbridge 

Holyoke 

Worcester 

Mexico 

New  York 

Kenil worth,  D.  C. 

South  Deerfield 

Springfield 

Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Windsor  Locks,  Conn. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Lowell 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Milford,  Conn. 

Westfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Westfield 

Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Central  Falls,  R.  I. 

Westfield 

Springfield 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Springfield 

New  York 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Dorchester 

East  Hartford,  Conn. 

Conway 

Conway 

Worcester 

New  York 

Springfield 


456  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Mrs.  Fred  G.  Colton      ....  New  York 

Robert  N.  Cone         New  Haven,  Conn. 

John  M.  Connery Bristol,  R.  I. 

Joseph  F.  Connelly         ....  Springfield 

Fred  W.  Connolly Dorchester 

Charles  H.  Connor         ....  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Ellen  C.  Converse      .      .      .  Randolph 

Frederick  William  Converse        .  Springfield 

Joseph  Coogan Waterbury,  Conn. 

Clarence  V.  Cook Athol 

Edward  A.  Cook Barre 

Lucien  a.  Cook Springfield 

Orrin  F.  Cooley Springfield 

Catherine  M.  Coolidge        .      .      .  Hudson 

Mrs.  Fred  Coolidge        ....  Gardner 

Laura  J.  Coolidge Hudson 

Joseph  F.  Coombs Hartford,  Conn. 

James  Cooney Wallingford,  Conn. 

Lucien  V.  Copeland        ....  Providence,  R.  L 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  T.  Covell       .  Shelburne  Falls 

Mrs.  George  Coward      ....  Shelburne  Falls 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  P.  Cox         .  Somerville 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  P.  Cregan        .  West  Brookfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  H.Crittenden  Springfield 

Benjamin  B.  Crocker     ....  Hartford,  Conn. 

James  J.  Crowley Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 

John  Sayer  Crowley      ....  Herford,  Northamptonshire, 

Neil  Crowley New  York  [England 

Edward  C.  Crosby Brattleboro,  Vt. 

William  Bernard  Cullen  .      .      .  Lonsdale,  R.  L 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  B.  Curtis      .  Hartford,  Conn. 

Miss  Mary  L  Dale Springfield 

Edwin  A.  Davis Atlanta,  Ga. 

Mrs.  Elvira  E.  Davis     ....  West  Chesterfield,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Mattie  J.  Davis      ....  Springfield 

Theodore  R.  Davis  ....  Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Davis      .      .      .  Springfield 

Hiram  Day West  Springfield 

Mrs.  William  P.  Derby        .      .      .  Springfield 

WiNFRED  P.  Derby Springfield 

Misses  Margaret  and  Helen 

Dewey Hartford,  Conn. 

Miss  Minnie  A.  Dewey         .      .      .  Pittsfield 

Perley  Hyde  Dexter     ....  Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  W.  Delaney  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Ira  Dimock Hartford,  Conn. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


457 


Mrs.  a.  E.  Dix Hinsdale,  N.  H. 

Dr.  Charles  Ditson        ....    Millers  Falls 
Mrs.  Mercy  E.  Do.\ne     ....   Athol 

John  J.  Donelan Springfield 

James  J.  Donnovan  ....    Springfield 

Mr.  AND  Mrs.  Michael  H.  Donovan   Lowell 

John  Dooley         New  York 

Thomas  M.  Dorsey Waterbury,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Parsons  Doubleday  Rutherford,  N.  J. 
Edward  C.  Douglas        ....   Springfield 

Fred  W.  Downer Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Michael  J.  Downey         ....    Springfield 
Mrs.  Louisa  Drake  ....    Chicopee  Falls 

James  G.  Driscoll Whitinsville 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Luther  A.  Drury    .    Newburyport 

Frederick  Drury Rutland 

Ellen  H.  Duggan Hartford,  Conn. 

Mary  E.  Duggan Hartford,  Conn. 

James  Dumphey Unionville,  Conn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  H.  Duncan    Indian  Orchard 

John  Dundon Hartford,  Conn. 

William  Duperrault      ....    Westfield 

George  A.  Eastwood      ....    Boston 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Eddy      .    West  Newton 

Mrs.  Zachary  Eddy         ....   Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y. 

Henry  C.  Edgerton         ....    Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  L.  Edson        .    Springfield 

Oliver  Edwards         U.  S.  N. 

Miss  Annie  L.  Edwards       .      .      .    Scarborough-on-Hudson, 
Charles  S.  Edwards        ....    Springfield  [N.  Y. 

Wilbert  H.  Edwards      ....    Springfield 
Mrs.  Lucy  M.  Elliot       ....    Springfield 
Levi  Henry  Elwell        ....   Amherst 
Edward  N.  Emerson       ....    New  York 

Dorothy  Evans Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Mrs.  L  Mortimer  Everest  .      .      .    Albany,  N.  Y. 
Francis  O.  Everett         ....    Sherborn 
Mrs.  Clifford  Emmons  Fales         .    Athol 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  O.  Faxon  .    Stoughton 

Fred  M.  Feiker Worcester 

Mrs.  S.  Y.  Fenno Boston 

William  S.  Fernald        ....    Revere 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  Hayward  Ferry    Boston 

Robert  W.  Field Springfield 

Ruth  A.  Field Springfield 

Mrs.  John  Wesley  Finch    .      .      .    North  Brookfield 


458 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


John  J.  Finn 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  A.  Fisher 

Miss  Lena  Fitzgerald    . 

Catherine  D.  Flannagan 

Glover  Fletcher 

Mrs.  Matthew  Flood 

Catherine  A.  Foley 

Hannah  Foley 

John  B.  Foley 

Benjamin  D.  Foot 

Mary  A.  Foot 

Mrs.  Frank  M.  Foote     . 

Arthur  Fortier 

Edward  V.  Foster     . 

Horatio  A.  Foster    . 

Nathan  Foster,  3d    . 

Clovis  N.  B.  Fournier 

Mrs.  Benjamin  R.  Franklin 

Mrs.  Peter  Franzen 

Mrs.  Robert  A.  Fraser 

Mrs.  Eliza  Strong  P'reed 

Harry  Freeman 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  M.  French 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  L.  R.  French 

Miss  Bella  P.  Fried 

Philo  F.  Fuller 

Charles  N.  Gabb  . 

Edward  J.  Gallivan 

William  A.  Gamwell 

John  J.  Gardner 

Harold  F.  Garrettson 

Margaret  Garvey 

Mrs.  Herbert  L.  Gates 

Frank  L.  Gaunt 

Louis  J.  Gauthier 

William  F.  Gawllagher 

Miss  Ivy  A.  Gearhart 

Emil  Gerhard 

Harold  and  Leslie  Gibbs 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  H.  Gifford 

Mrs.  Jane  L.  Gilbert 

Mrs.  S.  V.  Gilbert     . 

Miss  Rose  Gilfillan 

Andrew  M.  Gillespie 

Dr.  Harry  Gilman     . 

Mrs.  Joseph  H.  Gilpin 


Conn. 
Conn. 
Conn. 
N.  Y. 


South  Manchester,  N.  H. 

Cabery,  111. 

Sherburne,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Brookfield 

Springfield 

New  Haven, 

New  Haven, 

New  Haven, 

Schenectady, 

Pittsfield 

Chester  Center 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

New  York 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Springfield 

Turners  Falls 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Westfield 

Cleveland,  Ohio 

Boston 

Springfield 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Chester,  Vt. 

Collinsville,  Conn. 

Somerville 

Providence,  R.  I. 

Milford 

Springfield 

New  York 

Orange 

Springfield 

Springfield 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Van  Wert,  Ohio 

Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y, 

North  Blandford 

Brookline,  Vt. 

Providence,  R.  I. 

North  Brookfield 

New  York 

Utica,  N.  Y. 

Boston 

Ballston  Spa,  N.  Y. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


459 


John  L.  Gloster 

Charles  Glover 

Julius  B.  Goddard 

Miss  M.  G.  Godfrey 

Dr.  Thomas  F.  Godfrey 

Mrs.  C.  C.  Goland      . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  C.  Golby 

Andrew  S.  Goodell 

Benjamin  U.  Gough 

Charles  P.  Grant 

Miss  Flora  Grant 

Albert  Graves     . 

Bertha  M.  Graves 

Charlotte  E.  Graves 

Leonard  M.  Graves 

Mrs.  John  Graves 

Clara  Annie  Green 

George  Greene  . 

Levi  A.  Greene  . 

Miss  Annie  Greenleaf 

Thomas  Montgomery  Gregory 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Grennon 

James  D.  Griffin 

Patrick  J.  Griffin     . 

Patrick  J.  Griffin    . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Grisbach 

Harry  L.  Griswold 

Mrs.  Annie  K.  Gruendler 

Mrs.  George  E.  Guild    . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Haake 

Josephine  M.  Hackett 

Miss  Marie  J.  Hackett 

Miss  Margaret  Haddow 

Mrs.  William  J.  Hall     . 

Dr.  Gordon  Hall 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rev.  George  A.  Hall 

Bessie  H.  Hall     . 

Frederick  H.  Hall  . 

Mrs.  Helen  M.  Hall 

James  E.  Hall 

Joseph  H.  Hall    . 

Mrs.  Mary  Derby  Hall 

Miss  Minnie  E.  Hall 

Mrs.  M.  L.  Hall 

Raymond  J.  Hall 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  B.  Hall 


Waterbury,  N.  Y. 

Springfield 

Boston 

Nevada  City,  Nev. 

Springfield 

Richmond,  Va. 

Newark,  N.  J. 

Orange 

Thringstone,  Leicester, 

Boston  [England 

Boston 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Providence,  R.  L 

Springfield,  Vt. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

New  York 

North  Attleboro 

Gardner 

Bordentown,  N.  J. 

Newark,  N.  J. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Valley  Falls,  R.  I. 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

Bradford,  111. 

Springfield 

Scranton,  Pa. 

Newton 

Springfield 

Suffield,  Conn. 

North  Adams 

Agawam 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Peabodv 

Taunton 

Taunton 

Springfield 

Wallingford,  Conn. 

Providence,  R.  I. 

Springfield 

Wallingford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Wallingford ,  Conn . 

Wallingford,  Conn. 


460  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

William  S.  Hamel Springfield 

iMARY  Genevieve  Hammond       .      .    Bedford,  Ohio 

Charles  W.  Haney Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  Hannifin       .      .      .      .      .    Hartford,  Conn. 
Leon  M.  Hannaford        ....    Lynn 
H.  Alfred  Hansen  ....    Newton 

Miss  Mary  Harrigan      ....    Turners  Falls 
Miss  Grace  Harris    .      .      "      .      .    Colrain 
Mrs.  Helen  C.  Harris    ....    Chicago,  111. 

Herbert  A.  Harris Agawam 

Charles  H.  Hart Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P.  Hart     .      .      .    Springfield 

Mrs.  p.  H.  Hart Newington  Junction,  Conn. 

Mary  L.  Hartnett Springfield 

Ethel  S.  Harvey Springfield 

Harriet  Ferry  Strong  Harvey    .    Springfield 

Nettie  F.  Haskins West  Lonsdale,  R.  L 

Edward  N.  Haskell        ....    Springfield 

Mrs.  James  Hatch Bethel,  Vt. 

Charles  L.  Hathaway    ....    Orange 
William  Bryan  Haug     ....    New  York 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  D.  Hawley   Maiden 

Emma  E.  Hayden Springfield 

Erwin  Hayden Roxbury 

Joel  Hayden,  Jr Boston 

Thomas  Hayes Washington,  D.  C. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Healy   ....    Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herman  Heinritz     .    Holyoke 

Miss  Carlotta  E.  Hemenway  .      .    Edgewood,  R.  L 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Loring  S.  Hemenway  Edgewood,  R.  L 

Ralph  E.  Henderson      ....    Worcester 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  E.  Hennessey  New  Britain,  Conn. 

John  F.  Hennessey         ....    Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Henry         .    Worcester 

George  Henry Rochester,  N.  Y. 

James  Herbert,  Jr.  ....    Tampa,  Fla. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  E.  Herrick     .      .    Brattleboro,  Vt. 

Mrs.  Georgie  D.  Hersey     .      .      .    Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Hibbard      .    Hartford,  Conn. 

Leonard  J.  Hibbard        ....    Boston 

Rev.  Edward  D.  Hickey      .      .      .    Springfield,  Vt. 

Arthur  G.  Hiersche       ....    Ludlow 

Mrs.  Annette  J.  Clapp  Higgins     .    South  Coventry,  Conn. 

James  H.  Higgins Sj^ringfield 

Miss  Mabel  Higgins        ....    North  Blandford 
William  S.  Higgins,  M.D.    .      .      .    South  Coventry,  Conn. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


461 


Miss  Mary  Jane  Higgins     . 
William  Higgins        .      .      .      . 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Hill     . 
Mrs.  Frederick  J.  Hillman 
William  J.  Hillman 
Albert  Wallace  Hills 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  C.  Hines 
Henry  L.  Hines  .      .      .      . 

Herbert  W.  Hirst     .      .      .       . 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B 


Fall  River 
Fall  River 
Athol 
Springfield 
Holyoke 
Lorain,  Ohio 
Springfield 
Springfield 
New  Bedford 
Hitchcock 

Springfield 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

Lynn 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Westfield 

Geneva,  N. 


Irving  B.  Hitchcock 

Mrs.  Annie  W.  Hobb 

Clement  H.  Hodge    . 

Thomas  A.  Holland 

Mrs.  William  R.  Holliday 

Stephen  W.  Hopkins 

Mrs.  W.  S.  B.  Hopkins  and  daughter 

Worcester 
William  M.  Hopler 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Hosley 
Mr.  and.  Mrs.  J.  H.  Houston 
H.  WoLCOTT  Howard 
Mary  J.  Howard 
Archibald  M.  Howe 
Miss  Elvira  T.  Howes 
Mrs.  Ella  Biddle  Hoyt 
Howard  H.  Hoyt 
John  Hudson 
Frank  R.  Huebler    . 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Huey 
Mrs.  Ellen  Tappan  Hulett 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  N.  Hull 
Albert  S.  Hulse 
Frank  E.  Hunt    . 


Y. 


Miss  Nellie  Hurley 
Avon  J.  Huxley 
Frank  E.  Huxley 
Joseph  R.  Huxley 
Lewis  S.  Ingraham 
George  C.  Ives 
Thomas  E. Jaques 


Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Springfield 

Cambridge 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Holyoke 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Everett 

Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

Greenfield 

Providence,  R.  I. 

Springfield 

Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

New  York 

Boston 

New  York 

Springfield 

Mt.  Carmel,  Conn. 

New  Bedford 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Curtis  James  New  York 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  R.  Jewett  .    Salem 
Sarah  Hart  Phelps  Jewett      .      .   Springfield 
Paul  H.  S.  Johnson         ....    Naugatuck,  Conn. 


462  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

Mrs.  R.  a.  Johnstone     ....  Springfield 

Paul  W.  Jones Thringstone,  Leicester, 

Miss  vS.  M.  E.  Jones  ....  Beverly  [England 

John  T.  Joyce Springfield 

Francis  N.  Judge Worcester 

Miss  Agnes  Judson Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Keeler  .  Cheshire,  Conn. 

Mrs.  J.  J.  Kallaugher    ....  Kingston,  Ont. 

Daniel  F.  Kane Montpelicr,  Vt. 

John  Kane Springfield 

Mrs.  a.  Karlman Terryville,  Conn. 

Miss  Mary  W.  Karlman       .      .       .  Terryville,  Conn. 

Everett  Keach Texas 

Moses  Breck  Kelton      ....  Waltham 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  C.  Kennard 

Meriden,  Conn. 

John  P.  Kennedy Troy,  N.  Y. 

John  Kiernan       .      .      .      .  '    .      .  New  Britain,  Conn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  Nelson  Kimball  Brookline 

James  D.  Kimbali West  Burke,  Vt. 

Mrs.  Anna  L.  King Beverly 

Charles  A.  King Beverly 

Florence  M.  King Hinsdale,  N.  H. 

Miss  G.  Josephine  King       .      .      .  Agawam 

Mrs.  J.  F.  King New  York 

Edward  A.  Kingsley      ....  Boston 

Frances  K.  Kingsley     ....  Springfield 

Helen  C.  Kingsley New  York 

John  C.  Kingsley Springfield 

Albert  C.  Kinney Milford 

Austin  P.  Kirkham  ....  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Fred  Kirsch  and  family     .      .      .  New  York 

Florence  Kneeland       ....  Springfield 

Clara  L.  Knight West  Springfield 

Miss  Grace  L.  Knowles      .      .      .  Springfield 

Henry  Kron  Shelburne  Falls 

Charles  D.  Kunze Paterson,  N.  J. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Warren  O.  Kyle      .  Newtonville 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Labatt Galveston,  Tex. 

Arthur  E.  Labigne New  York 

Grace  Anderson  Labounty      .      .  Orange 

William  Lacey Hartford,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Braman  Lacore       .  Springfield 

Edward  Landers Keene,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Lena  M.  Landry     ....  Springfield 

George  M.  Landry Springfield 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


463 


Ernest  Lapointe 

Mrs.  Eugenie  Lavigne  . 

James  J.  Lawler 

Walter  H.  Lawler  . 

Eva  B.  Lawrence 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  H.  Lay 

Helen  W.  Lea      .... 

James  A.  Leach    .... 

>Irs.  Cyrene  Lewis  Le  Due 

James  Lee        

Mrs.  Judson  L.  Lee    . 

William  H.  Lee 

Mrs.  John  Leggett 

John  F.  Lennon 

Miss  Seraphine  E.  Letourneau 

Miss  Anna  M.  Lewis 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  G.  Lewis 

Nelle  Lewis 

Miss  Lily  May  Lightfoot 

Mattie  Little 

Mrs.  Harriette  Dwight  Longley 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  P.  Loomis 

James  Lee  Loomis 

Miss  Mary  Lyman 

Benjamin  Smith  Lyman 

QuARTus  A.  Lyman    . 

William  Lester  Lyman 

James  H.  Lyons,  Jr. 

John  J.  Lyons 

Louise  Macomber 

James  R.  Mackenzie 

John  L.  Madden 

Stephen  K.  Madden 

Mrs.  Florence  G.  Madden 

Mrs.  J.  W.  Madison 

John  Magee,  Jr. 

Alphonse  Major 

William  B.  Maloy 

Judson  Marble     . 

William  D.  Marcy 

Mrs.  Charles  S.  Marsh 

Mrs.  Francis  W.  Marsh 

Harold  C.  Marsh 

Frank  R.  Marshall 

Mrs.  Lucy  Martin 

Nelson  Martin     . 


Worcester 

North  Brookfield 

Winsted,  Conn. 

Hyde  Park 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

State  Line,  Mass. 

Windsor  Locks,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Colorado  Springs,  Col 

Westfield 

Lowell 

Rutland,  Vt. 

Boston 

Springfield 

Springfield 

North  Adams 

Wallingford,  Conn. 

Oshkosh,  Kans. 

Attica,  Ind. 

Belchertown 

Granby,  Conn. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Brookline 

Philadelphia 

New  Haven,  Conn 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Springfield 

New  York 

Boston 

Newark,  N.  J. 

Brooklvn,  N.  Y. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Peterboro,  N.  H. 

Port  Jefferson,  L.  L 

Meriden,  Conn. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Springfield 

Orange 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Bridgeport,  Conn. 

New  Milford,  Conn. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

England 

Ansonia,  Conn. 


464 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  J.  Martin 
Cotton  Mather,  Jr. 
Horace  E.  Mather    . 
Charles  E.  W.  Matthews 
Emilia  Mauzano 


Robert  A.  Mayham 

Howard  E.  McAllaster 

Daniel  T.  McCarthy 

James  A.  McCarthy 

Mrs.  a.  S.  McClean 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  McConville 

Katherine  H.  McDonnell 

Joseph  McGowan 

Agnes  I.  McGrath 

Edward  S.  McGrath 

Robert  McKeown 

Arthur  McKay     . 

Misses  Mary  and  Annette  McLane 

John  J.  McLaughlin 

Mary  McLaughlin     . 

Harry  McLeod 

Norman  McLeod 

Robert  McLeod 

Helen  McMahon 

Mrs.  p.  C.  McMahon 

Mary  McMahon    .      .      . 

Miss  Nemia  Meacham 

Arthur  K.  Merrill  . 

Helen  C.  Merrill 

Henry  A.  Merrill     . 

Carlton  R.  Merry     . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  E.  Merry 

Mrs.  Emma  F.  Merwin    . 

Miss  Anna  B.  Miller 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chandler  E. 

Mrs.  Edwin  Miller 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  F.  Miller 

Mrs.  Emma  H.  Miller 

Dr.  Eli  P.  Miller      . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  B.  Miller 

John  E.  Miller     . 

Laura  Miller 

Matthew  Cliffe  Miller 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nathan  F.  Miller 

Mary  W.  Milliken     . 


Mi 


ller 


Glens  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Concord 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Danielson,  Conn. 
Merida,  Yucatan, 

Mexican  Republic 
Trenton,  N.  J. 
Winnetka,  111. 
Winnipeg,  Man. 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Springfield 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
Holyoke 
Westfield 

East  Chatham,  N.  Y. 
Denver,  Col. 
Portland,  Ore. 
Norwich  University 
Boston 
Turners  Falls 
Millers  Falls 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
North  Adams 
North  Adams 
North  Adams 
Dalton 

Haverhill,  N.  H. 
Haverhill,  N.  H. 
Haverhill,  N.  H. 
Springfield 
Springfield 
Clinton,  Conn. 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Springfield 
Avon,  Conn. 
Scottsville,  N.  Y. 
New  York 
Bloomfield,  Conn. 
Oxford,  N.  Y. 
Scottsville,  N.  Y. 
New  York 
Bloomfield,  Conn. 
Bar  Mills,  Me. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  465 


Edwin  V.  Mitchell  ....    Hartford,  Conn. 

Florence  A.  and  Edith  L.  Moody    Springfield 

Charles  E.  Moore Somerville 

Chester  S.  Moore Brockton 

Mrs.  Gertrude  L.  Moore     .      .      .    Springfield 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Moore       .      .    Springfield 

Mrs.  F.  a.  Moran West  Winsted,  Conn. 

David  A.  Moran  Springfield 

Mrs.  M.  L.  Morgan Ridgefield  Park,  N.  J. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  A.  Morrissey        .    Montreal 
Miss  Julia  Moynihan      ....    Springfield 

Howard  Mudie Springfield 

John  J.  Mulcahey Hartford,  Conn. 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Murlless       ....    Rockville,  Conn. 

Frank  E.  Murphy Burlington,  Vt. 

Mrs.  George  Nash  and  Miss  Mar- 
guerite Nash New  York 

Robert  C.  Needham         ....    Boulder,  Col. 

Mrs.  D.  E.  Newell Attleboro 

William  Newman Galveston,  Tex. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  F.  Newton      .      .   Athol 

Mrs.  E.  S.  Niles  Boston 

Edith  Nims Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  F.  Nims       .      .      .    Athol 

Ella  M.  Noble Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Noiseux        .    Thompsonville.  Conn. 

Sylvanus  Nourse Williamsville 

Charles  Herbert  Nutting        .      .    Sharon 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elijah  G.  Nutting  .    Faribault,  Minn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  H.  Nutting    Warehouse  Point,  Conn. 

Hannah  O'Brien Holyoke 

Jeremiah  F.  O'Connor  .      .      .    Hartford,  Conn. 

Edward  Offinger Johnstown,  N.  Y. 

Julia  O'Laughlin Minneapolis,  Minn 

Daniel  O'Neil Keene,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Clara  I.  Olney        ....    Chelsea 

Mrs.  Otto  Olsen Rutland,  Vt. 

William  Owens Shreveport,  Ln. 

Mrs.  Juliette  C.  Page    ....    Meriden,  Conn. 
Mrs.  Benjamin  O.  Paine       .      .      .    Millbury 
Dr.  L.  A.  Paquin         .      .      .      .      .    Worcester 
Mrs.  Alma  Livermore  Parent        .    Spokane,  Wash. 
Frank  S.  Parsons,  M.D.       .       .      .    Dorchester 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  B.  Parsons       Roxbuiy 
CoL.  Joseph  B.  Parsons        .      .      .    Boston 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Parsons        .    Westfield 


466 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Henry  Parsons 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Payn  B.  Parsons      . 
Phineas  F.  Parsons         .      .      .      . 

Isaac  S.  Parsons 

Miss  Ellen  Parsons        .      .      .      . 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Parsons 

Henry  S.  Parsons 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Parsons 
Mrs.  William  H.  Parsons    . 
Mrs.  F.  F.  Partridge      .      .      .      . 
Miss  Alice  J.  Pasco         .      .      .      . 

Asa  K.  Patten, Jr 

Mrs.  William  Patten     .      .      .      . 

T.  A.  Patteson, Jr 

William  H.  Patterson 

Edward  F.  Payette         .      .      .      . 

Herman  H.  Payne 

Prof.  Benjamin  Mills  Peirce 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Peix,  Jr. 

Alice  M.  Pelissier    . 

William  J.  Pelissier 

George  W.  Penfield 

Mrs.  F.  F.  Percival. 

Arthur  L.  Perreault     . 

Mrs.  Amy  S.  C.  Perry     . 

Edward  Clark  Perry     . 

Fred  J.  Perry 

Mrs.  Helen  Clapp  Perry 

Mrs.  Henrietta  Perry 

Mrs.  H.  a.  Perry   .   . 

Frank  W.  Phelps 

Harold  D.  Phelps     . 

Mrs.  Helen  E.  Phelps    . 

Miss  Helen  L.  Phelps    . 

Samuel  A.  Phelps 

Helen  Crosby  Pierce    . 

Miss  Nellie  O.  Pierce   . 

Henry  G.  Piquette  . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  S.  Pomeroy 

George  Eltweed  Pomeroy 

Dr.  G.  E.  Pomeroy     .      . 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Pomeroy 

Dr.  W.  H.  Pomeroy 

Mrs.  Nellie  Cook  Porter 

Rena  Porter  . 

Mrs.  Warren  M.  Porter 


Washington,  D.  C. 
New  York 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Newtonville 
New  York 
Newfane,  Vt. 
Seymour,  Conn. 
Lakeville,  Conn. 
Springfield 
Holyoke 
Springfield 
Springfield 
Nashua,  N.  H. 
New  York 
Salem 
Springfield 
Springfield 
Cambridge 
Danbury,  Conn. 
Maiden 
Maiden 

New  Britain,  Conn. 
Santa  Clara,  Cal. 
Montreal,  Canada 
Springfield 
Springfield 
Bellows  Falls,  Vt. 
Bridgewater 
Peterboro,  N.  H. 
Walpole,  N.  H. 
Wallingford,  Conn. 
West  Springfield 
Somerville,  N.  J. 
West  Springfield 
Prince  Bay,  N.  Y. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Rutland 
New  Bedford 
Springfield 
Toledo,  Ohio- 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Cortland,  N.  Y. 
Hartford,  Conn. 
Melrose 

Walpole,  N.  H. 
Walpole,  N.  H. 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS  467 


Ida  H.  Powers Salem 

Mary  H.  Power Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Prentiss  Roxbury 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  A.  Pringle  Holvoke 

Mrs.  E.  E.  Prior Pittsfield 

Isabella  J.  Proctor        ....  Valencia,  Spain 

Frank  L.  Pulaski Detroit,  Mich. 

Bert  F.  Putnam  Athol 

Mrs.  Nellie  Estelle  Quimby  .      .  Athol 

Frank  E.  Quinlan Westfield 

John  J.  Rafferty Marlboro 

Fred  E.  Raleigh Springfield 

Grenville  E.  Read  ....  Providence,  R.  I. 

William  W.  Read Greenwich,  Conn. 

Robert  R.  Regan vSpringfield 

William  Reilly  .....  Warsaw,  N.  Y. 

Beatrice  W.  Rice North  Adams 

Jane  L.  Rice  North  Adams 

Mrs.  Miriam  C.  Richards     .      .      .  Marlboro 

Mrs.  Walter  D.  Richardson    .      .  Somerville,  N.  J. 

Mrs.  William  C.  Richardson    .      .  New4onville 

Daniel  F.  Rieger Lenox 

George  B.  Riley Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  E.  Riley    .      .  Springfield 

Miss  Helen  Clark  Riley    .      .       .  Springfield 

Horace  A.  Ring         Walpole,  N.  H. 

Mrs.  Eliza  D.  Ripley      ....  Springfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Winthrop  A.  Risk  .  Providence 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Victor  E.  Rocheleau  Worcester 

Arthur  E.  Rock Springfield 

Sherman  Van  Ness  Rockefeller  Hudson,  N.  Y. 

George  H.  Rockwell     ....  Springfield 

Charles  E.  Rogers  ....  Ashuelot,  N.  H. 

Miss  Dorothy  Rogers    ....  vScarborough-on-Hudson, 

N.  Y. 

Miss  Fannie  E.  Rogers        .      .      .  Scarborough -on-Hudson, 

N.  Y. 

Mrs.  J.  Warren  Rogers       .      .      .  Scarborough-on-Hudson, 

N.  Y. 

Walter  Clifford  Ross         .      .      .  Springfield 

Arthur  Rowan Wakefield 

Frank  Rowley Fitchburg 

Mrs.  Robert  Ruddy        ....  Worcester 

Louis  F.  Ruder Boston 

Alma  G.  Russell Oakham 

Mrs.  E.  E.  Russell Springfield 


468 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


George  A.  Russell 

Herbert  A.  Russell 

Mrs.  Ida  E.  Russell 

Mrs.  L.  M.  Russell 

Schuyler  H.  Rust     . 

Miss  Anna  Ryan 

Mrs.  E.  M.  Ryan. 

Mrs.  p.  L.  D.  Ryder 

Mrs.  Emma  J.  Sackett 

Mrs.  Clara  Sawyer 

George  W.  Sawyer 

Minnie  J.  Say 

Daniel  Scannell 

Michael  Scannell     . 

Mrs.  Henry  Schafmeister 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Schmidt 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond  C.  Schneid 

Samuel  Spencer  Scott 

James  M.  Searl    . 

Mary  B.  Searl 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  P.  Searle 

Theodore  R.  Sehl 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Sergeant 

Miss  Caroline  B.  Sergeant 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  J.  Shaw 

Harrison  S.  Shaw 

Anna  J.  Shea 

Charles  Shepherd     . 

William  A.  Sikes 

Miss  Louise  M.  Sims 

Cedric  p.  Sinley 

Mrs.  George  P.  Sisson   . 

Mrs.  F.  W.  J.  Sizer    .      . 

Mrs.  Walter  A.  Skinner 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  E.  Smith 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arnet  C.  Smith 

Miss  Bessie  L.  Smith 

Carrie  Lathrop  Smith    . 

Charles  Smith      .... 

Mrs.  Charles  P.  Smith   . 

Dr.  Charles  E.  Smith 

Misses  Alice  and  Florence  Smith 

Mrs.  Ford  Smith 

Mrs.  Charles  F.  Smith 

Charles  P.  Smith 


Worcester 

Springfield 

Wallingford,  Conn. 

Worcester 

New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Brooklyn 

Boston 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Whitingham,  Vt. 

Springfield 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Lynn 

Windsor  Locks,  Conn. 

Ossining,  N.  Y. 

Athol 

ER 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Cranford,  N.  J. 

West  New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 

West  New  Brighton,  N.  Y. 

Westfield 

Meriden,  Conn. 

Boston 

Brookline 

Somers,  Conn. 

Meriden,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Nashua,  N.  H. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Bennington,  Vt. 

Turnerville,  Conn. 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

Lynn 

Springfield 

Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

New  York 

Concord,  N.  H. 

Athol 

Springfield 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Athol 

Springfield 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


469 


Clarence  W.  Smith 

Frank  H.  Smith    . 

Miss  Hattie  M.  Smith 

John  Smith 

John  Smith 

Maurice  H.  Smith 

Olive  C.  Smith 

Sarah  P.  Smith     . 

William  H.  Smith  and  family 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alden  G.  Snell 

Mrs.  George  H.  Snow     .... 

John  Soule      

Edward  Southwick 

Miss  Marion  L.  Sparks  .... 
Mrs.  Sarah  Braman  Spenler    . 
Mrs.  W.  a.  Sprague         .... 

Mrs.  a.  E.  Spurr 

Mrs.  R.  N.  Staab 

Miss  Sarah  E.  Stallwood   . 
Mrs.  Florence  A.  T.  Stanaru  . 

Will  C.  Stanleigh 

Charles  M.  Starkweather 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  E.  Steele 

Rev.  Charles  Augustus  Stoddard 
Mrs.  Thirza  M.  Colton  Stone 

George  H.  Strickland  .      .      .      . 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Asa  L.  Strong     . 

Ernest  E.  Strong 

Mrs.  Fannie  Strong 

Henry  S.  Strong. 

Joseph  L.  Strong 

Robert  Strong     . 

Wilson  B.  Strong 

Mrs.  Alice  J.  Strout 

Frederic  W.  Sullivan 

Michael  Sullivan 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Michael  J. 

Owen  Sullivan    . 

Edward  H.  Swift 

Robert  B.  Talbot,  M.D 

George  W.  Tapley    . 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Tapley 

Jessie  F.  Tapley 

Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Tappan 

Miss  Elizabeth  W.  Tappan 

JosiAH  S.  Tappan 


llivan 


Orange,  Conn. 

Orange,  Conn. 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

New  York 

Oakland,  Cal. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Orange,  Conn. 

Melrose  Highlands 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Springfield 

Laconia,  N.  H. 

Little  Shasta,  Cal. 

Salem 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

Meriden,  Conn. 

Somerville 

Mt.  Washington 

Worcester 

Hagersville,  Ont. 

Le  Rov,  N.  Y. 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Wethersfield,  Conn. 

New  York 

Champlain,  N.  Y. 

Bridgeport,  Conn. 

Suffield,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Georgetown,  D.  C. 

Dorchester 

Winchendon 

Nashua,  N.  H. 

Boston 

Springfield 

Manchester,  Vt. 

New  York 

Springfield 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York 

Brookline 

Roxburv 


470 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


ER 


Miss  Mary  S.  Tappan.     . 

Irving  Clarence  Teahan 

Edwin  A.  Taylor 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiland  H.  Thay 

L.  Stanley  Thayer    . 

Mrs.  Christine  Thayer 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  A.  Thomas 

Miss  Robina  L.  Thomson 

Edward  Sweetser  Tillotson 

Le  Roy  E.  Tillson 

Mrs.  M.  B.  Torrey 

Alice  I.  Towne     . 

Frank  L.  Towne 

Edward  Townsend 

Frank  A.  Tracy   . 

Donald  Oilman  Trow 

William  Clark  Trow 

Mrs.  W.  a.  Trow 

Mrs.  William  A.  Trow,  and  two 

children 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willard  E.  Tufts 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  C.  Tunnicliffe 
Miss  S.  A.  Turner      . 
Charles  P.  Tuthill  . 
Mrs.  Charles  H.  Tuttle 
Miss  Mary  Twohey   . 
Misses  Mary  and  Frances 
Mrs.  Catherine  E.  Tyler 
Miss  Fannie  M.  Tyler    . 
Miss  Julia  Tyler 
Miss  Mary  E.  Tyler.      . 
Mrs.  E.  S.  D.  Vallentine 
Anita  Vanasse 
Miss  Edna  M.  Vanasse  . 
Ernest  Vanasse  . 
Miss  Georgie  Vanderpool 
Miss  Marvin  Vanderpool 
Sylvia  E.  Van  Etten 
Maxine  L.  Van  Etten     . 
Miss  Elsie  Wade 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  E.  Wakefield 
George  W.  Walker 
Mrs.  J.  E.  Ware 
James  E.  Warfield 
Charles  A.  Warner 
Joseph  Warner    . 


Tyler 


Brookline 

New  York 

Nottingham,  England 

Springfield 

Cambridge 

Manchester,  N.  H. 

Maiden 

Manchester,  N.  H. 

Wether sfield.  Conn. 

Springfield 

Boston 

Springfield 

Windsor  Locks,  Conn. 

Providence,  R.  I. 

New  York 

Sherburne,  N.  Y. 

Sherburne,  N.  Y. 

Sherburne,  N.  Y. 

Sherburne,  N.  Y. 

Springfield 

Athol 

Brattleboro,  Vt. 

Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Paterson,  N.  J. 

Worcester 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York 

New  York 

D anbury.  Conn. 

Waterbury,  Conn. 

Norwich,  Conn. 

Waterbury,  Conn. 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Holyoke 

Newtonville 

Brattleboro,  Vt. 

New  York 

Chicago,  111. 

Springfield 

New  York 


NORTHAMPTON.    MASSACHUSETTS  471 

William  Warner Athol 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  L.  Warriner  Springfield 

Mrs.  Henry  Todd  Washburn  .      .  Dorchester 

Carl  Tracy  Washburn        .      .      .  Dorchester 

Mrs.  Claude  E.  Watkins     .      .      .  New  York 

William  H.  Webster      ....  Truxton,  N.  Y. 

James  H.  Weeks Matteawan,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Welch        .  Thompsonville,  Conn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Wells     .  Englewood,  N.  J. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  F.  Wentworth    .  Pittsfield 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  E.  Westcott        .  East  Berlin,  Conn. 

Mrs.  King  F.  Weyant    ....  Boston 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Wheeler  Springfield 

Marie  O.  Wheeler Pittsfield 


Portland,  Me. 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Hartford,  Conn. 


Elizabeth  Judd  Whipple     . 

Mary  H.  Whipple 

George  W.  B.  Whitcomb 

Mrs.  Hattie  Sherman  White 

Mrs.  Laura  Dufresne  White 

Mrs.  Orphia  White  . 

Stephen  E.  White 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Whitehouse     .  Holyoke 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Whitehouse 

Springfield 

Miss  Frances  L.  Whitney  .      .      .  Athol 

Henry  M.  Whitney Branford,  Conn. 

Milton  B.  Whitney Westfield,  Mass. 

Roy  Whitney Springfield 

William  F.  Whittlesey       .      .      .  Hartford,  Conn. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jesse  G.  Wilcox       .  Newark,  N.  J. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  J.  Willard  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Willard    ....  New  York 

Mrs.  Effie  A.  Willey     ....  Winthrop 

Arthur  E.  Williams       ....  Springfield 

Sidney  S.  Williams Providence,  R.  I. 

James  W.  Wilson Groton 

Leslie  A.  Wilson Meriden,  Conn. 

Dorothy  Scott  Winslow     .      .      .  Chicago,  111. 

Mrs.  Fred  L.  Wood Springfield 

Mrs.  V.  J.  Wood Chester,  Vt. 

William  A.  Wood Boston 

Mrs.  D.  L  Woodbury      ....  Winchester,  N.  H. 

Doris  Woodbury Winchester,  N.  H. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Woodbury      .  Salem,  N.  H. 

Marguerite  L.  Woodruff  .      .      .  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Marcus  M.  Woods Woodville 


472 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Charles  K.  Woodsum 
Mrs.  Abbie  A.  Wright    . 
Miss  Frances  E.  Wright 
Miss  Jennie  Wright 
Mrs.  Lucius  G.  Wright 
Lewis  H.  Wright 
Frederick  A.  Yeatman 
Joseph  Zarouski 


Springfield 

South  Framingham 

South  Framingham 

Feeding  Hills 

Athol 

South  Framingham 

Springfield 

New  York 


I  HE  late  Judge  Joseph  Lyman,  who  read  law  in  the  office  of 
Major  Hawley,  relates  an  incident  which  is  characteristic  of  the 
man.  It  appears  that  Caleb  vStrong  was  Major  Hawley's  col- 
league from  Northampton  to  the  Provincial  Congress,  and  on 
returning  from  the  eastern  part  of  the  state,  found  his  associate  at  home 
laboring  under  a  great  depression  of  mind,  and  expressing  the  appre- 
hension that  if  the  cause  of  the  patriots  should  fail  he  would  be  hung. 
Mr.  Strong  said  in  reply,  "No,  they  will  not  probably  hang  more  than 
forty  men,  and  you  and  I  shall  escape."  This  roused  Major  Hawley, 
and  he  responded  with  all  his  old-time  energy,  "I  would  have  you  know. 
Sir,  that  I  am  one  of  the  first  three."  And  the  next  day  he  made  a 
speech  to  the  citizens  of  Northampton  which  contained  sufficient  treason 
to  ftilly  justify  his  assertion. 


What  constitutes  a  state  ? 
Not  high-raised  battlement  or  labor'd  mound, 

Thick  wall  or  moated  gate  ; 
Not  cities  proud,  with  spires  and  turrets  crown 'd  ; 

Not  bays  and  broad-arm'd  ports, 
Where,  laughing  at  thejstorm,  rich  navies  ride; 

Not  starr'd  and  spangled  courts. 
Where  low-brow'd  baseness  wafts  perfume  to  pride. 

No! — Men,  high-minded  men. 
With  powers  as  far  above  dull  brutes  endued, 

In  forest,  brake  or  den. 
As  beasts  excel  cold  rocks  and  brambles  rude  ; 

]\Ien,  who  their  duties  know. 
But  know  their  rights,  and  knowing,  dare  maintain, 

Prevent  the  long-aim 'd  blow. 
And  crush  the  tyrant,  while  they  rend  the  chain — 

These  constitute  a  state. 

Sir  William  Jonks 


A    DISTINGUISHED     NORTHAMPTON     FAMILY 


JosiAH   D.    Whitney  and  His   Four   So 


NS 


JosiAH  D.  Whitney,  Ju.,  LL.D 

State  Geologist  of  California, 
i860;  Professor  of  Geology 
at  Harvard  College,  1865 


William  D\vk;ht  Whitney 

Professor  of  Sanskrit  Lan- 
guage and  Literature  at  Yale 
College,  1854;  also  Professor 
of  Comparative  Philology 


JosiAH  D.  Whitney 
Many  Years  President  Northampton  Bank 


James  L.  Whitney 

Bookseller    and    Publisher:    later 
Assistant  Librarian  at  Boston 
Public  Library 


Henry  M.  Whitney 
Professor    of   Rhetoric   and   English 
Literature  at  Beloit  College,  Wis- 
consin.      Now   Librarian   at 
Branford,  Conn. 


474 


Cbcsc  uicrc  bonorcb  in  tbcii  bap  anb  oc»fration  anb  acre  the  o<or'?  of  tJirir  times.  — Old  Testament 


Benjamin  Tappan 

and  Mrs. 

Sarah  Homes  Tappan 


Judge  Samuel  Henshaw 

and  Mrs. 

Martha  Hunt  Henshaw 


Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates 

and  Mrs. 

Martha  Henshaw  Bates 


475 


•?t  man  bic0,  but  bi^  name  remain^ 


Samuel  L.   Hinckley 
Sheriff  of  Hampsliire  County,  1844-51 


Major   Josiah   Dwight 
Clerk  of  Hampshire  Courts  and  State  Treasurer 


Mrs.  Mary  Woolsey  Dwk.ht 

Wife  of  Timothy  Hvvieht,  President 
of  Yale  College 


Timothy  D\vk;ht 
First  President  of  that  name  at  Yale  College 


Capt.  Samtiel  Parsons 
Old  Town  Meeting  Orator 


lis 

I^^^^^^E^^ T-  . 

^Mf  *«»  ■;.-. 

(K     ^? 

OLD     COURT-HOUSE     GROUP— 1846 


From  left  to  right, 
former  Clerk  of  Courts; 
Courts. 


front  —  Giles  C.  Kellogg,  former  Register  of   Deeds;  Solomon  Stoddard, 
Dr.    Daniel    Stebbins,  retiring  County  Treasurer;   Samuel  Wells,  Clerk  of 


In  rear  —  Major  Harvey   Kirkland,  Register  of  Deeds;  Samuel  F.   Lyman,  Register  of  Probate; 
JoN.^THAN  Hunt  Butler,   County  Treasurer. 

In  extreme  rear  —  portrait  of  Judge  Joseph   Lyman,  hanging  on  wall. 


Zbe  Country  iparson 

AT  church,  with  meek  and  unaffected  grace, 
His  looks  adorned  the  venerable  place; 
Truth,   from  his  lips,  prevail'd,  with  dovible  sway, 
And  fools,  who  came  to  scoff,  remained  to  pray. 

E'en  children  followed,  with  endearing  wile, 

And  plucked  his  gown,  to  share  the  good  man's  smile. 

Goldsmith's  "Descried   Village" 


The  proud  he  tam'd,  the  penitent  he  cheered  ; 

Nor  to  rebuke  the  rich  offender  feared. 

His  preaching  much,  but  more  his  practice  wrought, 

(  A  living  sermon  of  the  truths  he  taught ) 

For  this  by  rules  severe  his  life  was  squared. 

That  all  might  see  the  doctrine  which  they  heard. 

Dryden's  "Character  of  a  Good  Parson" 


47S 


A      GROUP      OF      OLD       PASTORS 


Rev.  Goedon  Hall,   D.  D. 
Pastor   Edwards   Church 


Rev.  Zachary  Eddy,   D.  D. 
Pastor  First  Church 


Rev.  Payson  Williston 
First  Minister  of  Easthampton 


Rev.  .John  Todd,   n.  D. 
Pa.stor  Edwards  (Church 


Rev.   Michael   E-   Barry 
Pastor  St.  Mary's   Church 


H.  man  be  ujas  to  all  the  countrio  ijcar. 

479 


■Goldsmith 


THE  Country  Doctor. —  He  combined  his  duties 
of  doctor  and  apothecary.  He  pounded  his  own 
drugs,  made  his  own  tinctures,  prepared  his 
own  infusions,  and  put  up  his  own  prescriptions. 
When  he  rode  out  he  knew  the  names  and  personal 
history  of  the  occupants  of  every  house  he  passed. 
Sunshine  and  rain,  daylight  and  darkness,  were  alike 
to  him.  With  the  exception  of  the  minister  and  the 
judge,  he  was  the  most  important  personage  in  the 
town. — John  B.   McMaster 


But    not    unto    me    be    the    praise.      O    Doctor !     O, 
my  guide,  philosopher  and   friend! — Soutiiky 


Thousands  of  journeys,  night  and   day. 

Weary,   I've  wandered,  on  my  way. 

To  heal  the  sick,  but  now  I'm  gone  — 

A  journey  never  to  return. 

Epitaph  on  tomb  stone  of  Dr.  Howland  Dawes 
at  Cummington,   Mass. 


NORTHAMPTON     DOCTORS     OF     THE     PAST 


Figures  denote   time  of  beginning  practice  here 


Dk.  Ebenezer  Hunt — 1768 


Dr.  Gustavus  D    Peck      1848 


Dr.  David  Hunt — 1794 


Dr.   Sylvester  Graham  —  1S20 


Dr.  Benjamin  Barrett — 1823 


Dn.  D.^NiEL  Thompson — 1837 


Dr.  James   Dunlap — 1848  Dr.   Edward   E.   Denniston — 1835  Dr.  Charles  L.   Knowlton — 1868 

«©,  0ooD  jjra?  ftcab,  tnbicb  all  men  ftnn»! — Tennyson 

481 


Lawyers  are  needful  to  keep  us  out  of  the  law. 

Proverbs 


Law  has  her  seat  in  the  bosom  of   God ;     her    voice 
is  the  harmony  of  the  world. —  Anon 


As  to  be  perfectly  just  is  an  attribute  in  the  Divine 
Nature,  to  be  so  to  the  utmost  of  our  abilities  is  the 
glory  of  a  man.  Such  an  one,  who  has  the  public 
administration,  acts  like  the  representative  of  his 
Maker. —  Addison 


There  is  perhaps  no  profession,  after  that  of  the 
sacred  ministry,  in  which  a  higher-toned  morality  is 
more  imperatively  necessary  than  in  that  of  the  law. 
High  moral  principle  is  his  only  safe 
guide;  the  only  torch  to  light  his  way  amidst  dark- 
ness and  obstruction.  It  is  like  the  spear  of  the 
guardians  of  Paradise — 

"  No  falsehood  can  endure 
Touch  of  celestial  temper  but   returns 
Of  force  to  its  own  likeness." 

Judge  George  Sharswood 


482 


SOME  OF  NORTHAMPTON'S  NOTEWORTHY  CONTRIBUTIONS 


To  the   Bar  and   Bencli 


Judge  Charles  A.   Dewey 


Judge  Samuel  T.  Spaulding 


Judge  Joseph  Lyman 


.f^i^:Jk^ 


^f 


OSMYN     BaKEH 


Judge  Samuel  Howi 


Judge  William  Alle> 


Haynes  H.  Chilson 


483 


Charles  Delano 


SOME    OF    THE    RESPECTED   OLDER    MEN   OF    THE    PAST 

Figures  denote  time  of  beginning  service  here 


JosiAH   Parsons  —  1828 


Capt.  Jonathan   Brewster — 1840 


Coi..   Thomas   Pomeroy — 1813 


Paul  Strong  —  1832 


Dea.  Eliphalet   Williams —  1820 


Samuel  W.   Lee  —  1827 


David   B.  Whitcomb  —  1822 

(dbc  ]li?oar?  iCfcab  is  a  Crown  of  <!Blor)?. — Scripture 


484 


REPRESENTATIVE     MEN     OF    THEIR     TIME 


Lewis  J.   Dudley 


Henry   Shepherd 


William   Clark 


Erasti's   Hopkins 


Henkv    Bright 


(3Ebe  BtDcct  remembrance  of  the  iust 
§baH  flourisb  tuben  be  sleeps  m  Dust. 


Gen.   Luke  Lyman 


N 


.% 


v^  : 


-^ 


Oliver  Warner 


485 


SOME  REPRESENTATIVE  NORTHAMPTON  BUSINESS  MEN 

Who  ha\K  ioiiiEb  tbc  "tlBrcat  .JlStaiontp" 

Figures  denote  time  of  beginning  service  here 


Dea.  Daniel  Kingsley — 1830 


Webster  Herrick — 1827 


Silas  M.  Smith— 1828 


Jonathan  Hunt  Butler —  1828 


Seth  Hunt— 1835 


William  F.  Arnold  — 1839 


Col.  Justin  Thayer — 1834 


Marvin  M.  French — 1835 


"  j^auobt  but  tbe  mcrn'r?  of  the  lust 
.^mcHs  fiujcrt  anb  bloosoms  in  tbc  trust." 

486 


MORE    OF    THE    GREAT    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES 


Figures  denote  time  of  beginning  service  here 


Lafayette   Maltby  — 1858 


Sidney  Strong  —  1S35 


Edward  P.  Copeland  — 1803 


^iti^iji 


Major  Henry  A.  Longley  — 1860 


William   M.   Gaylord  — 1860 


WiNTHROP   Hillyer — 1842 


Dr.  Austin  W.  Thompson — 1854  Theodore  Rust — 1823  William   F.Pratt  —  1830 

3  am  caUrD  aujap  b^  particular  busincas,  but  J  Icalic  mp  cbarattrr  bchinb  nir.  —  Sheridan 

487 


Zbc  ®IJ5  ^Familiar  jFaces 

I  have  had  playmates,  I  have  had  companions, 

In  my  days  of  childhood,  in  my  joyful  school  days; 

All,  all  are  gone,  the  old  familiar  faces. 

Charles  Lamb 


488 


MORE  OF  THE  GREAT  ARMY  MILITANT  AND  TRIUMPHANT 

Figures  denote  time  of  beginniiiK  service  here 


Gen.  Benjamin  E.  Cook  — 1827  Dea.  William<  H    Stoddard — 1822  Capt.  Enos   Parsons — 1835 


Capt.  Edwin  C.  Clark  — 1847 


Luther  Bodman — 1864 


Dea.  Addison  J.  Lincoln  — 1856 


JosEPHus  Crafts  — 1866  David  W.  Crafts  — 1849  Col.  George  Shepard  — 1818 

-Cfteia  fougbt  a  goob  fiobt  anb  hcpt  tbc  faiti). 
489 


AND     THESE     WERE     OF      A      GOOD      SPIRIT 


Figures  denote  time  of  beginning  .service  here 


Oliver  Warner,   Jr. — 1839 


Ch.^rles  Smith  — 1828 


Ch.\rles  B.  Kingsley — 1849 


TTexhy   H.  Bond— 1870 


Ansel  Wright — 1823 


Henry   Dikeman  — 1845 


Henry  Childs  — 1833  Dr.  Thomas   W.  Meekin.s— 1850 

■?C  man  of  undcrstanDino  is  of  an  cvccUcnt  sjiiiit.  —  .Scriptukk 


490 


MEN  OF  FORCE  AND  ORIGINALITY  OF  CHARACTER 


Figures  denote  time  of  beginning  service  here 


'-.lif'&iZ'  :«--.'.&;  c  -ExikZl^smi 


Waldo    H.  Whitcomb — 1861 


Smith  Cakh —  1862 


Prof.  George    Kingsley — 1830 


Capt.  Mark  H.  Spauldixg  —  18.57 


Michael  Williams — 182.3 


Jo.sFPH  Hebert — 1883 


.Joseph  Warner — 1841 

iy?c  ttias  not  mcrciP  a  chip  of  tfic  oJb  bloch,  be  uias  the  bloch  itsdf.  — Lord  Pitt 

491 


When  I  remember  all 

The  friends  so  linked  together, 
I've  seen  around  me  fall, 

Like  leaves  in  wintry  weather, 
I  feel  like  one  who  treads  alone 

Some  banquet  hall  deserted. 
Whose  lights  are  fled,  whose  garlands  dead. 

And  all  but  he  departed. 

Moore 


492 


SOME     OF     THE     FLORENCE     VETERANS 


Samuel  A.  Bottum 


Charles   C.'Burleigh 


George   H.  Ray 


Horace  K.  Parsons 


Austin  Ross^ 


John  F.  Warner 


James  D.  Atkins  Gen.  John  L.  Otis  Stephen  B.  Fuller 

ifor  tf)e  mEm'rp  of  tht  lust  lilies  in  cVicrlastirifl  fame. 

493 


*'^be  Great  /llbajorlt\2" 


Nothing  now  is  left  but  a  majestic  lnelnor^^ 

Longfellow 


To  li\-e  in  hearts  we  leave  behind  is  not  to  die. 

Campbell 


^be  Denerable  ILivinci 

Age  sits  with  decent  grace  upon  his  visage, 
And  worthily  becomes  his  silver  locks. 
Who  wears  the  marks  of  many  years  well  spent. 
Of  \-irtuc,   truth  well  tried,   and  wise  experience. 

ROWE 


494 


OLDEST  BUSINESS  MEN   IN   NORTHAMPTON,  NOW   LIVING 


Figures  denote  when  they  began  business  here 


James  H.  Searle  —  1840 


Oscar  Edwards  — 1852 


Sidney  E.  Bridgman  — 1844 


t.„>*^^  :*- 


Henry   S.  Gere  — 1845 


Lucius  Dimock  — 1847 


Christopher   Clarke  —  1847 


Charles   H.Dickinson — 1849  Isaac  S.  Parsons  — 1850  Merritt  Clark  — 1848 

.§)fC8t  tbou  a  man  Dili{jrnt  in  bis  business?    t^e  sbaH  stanD  before  hings.  —  Old  Testament 

495 


MORE  BUSINESS  AND  PROFESSIONAL  MEN  WHO  STILL  LIVE 

Figures  denote  when  they  began  service  here 


A.  Lyman  Williston — 1851 


Watson  L.  Smith  — 1856 


Judge  William  P.  Strickland  —  1864 


Joseph  Marsh  — 1856 


Dr.  Thomas  Gilfillan  — 1865 


Dr.  William  H.  Jones  — 1857 


William  H.Todd  —  1848  Alexander  McCallum — 1866  John   L.  Draper  — 1864 

ill?ea«  to  conccilic,  tbc  uiiDcrstanbino  to  bircct,  or  tbe  banb  to  execute— Junius'  Letters 

496 


AND   STILL  MORE   WHOSE    HAIRS  ARE   GRAY 


Figures  denote  time  of  beginning  t^ervice  here 


William  C.  Pomekoy       1864 


Joseph  C.  Williams —  1850' 


J.  Howe  Demond — 1872 


Dr.  Osmore  O.  Roberts— 1853 


Benjamin  E.  Cook,  Jr. —  1S58 


Dn   Joseph  N.  Davenport — 3863 


Charles  M.  Kinney — 1845 


Matthew  Grogan — 1855 

K  bappp  poiith,  anb  their  olb  age 
%s  beautiful  anb  free. 

497 


Charles  S.  Pratt — 1852 


SOME  FLORENCE  AND   LEEDS  MEN   WHOSE  YEARS  OF 

SERVICE  ARE   MANY 


0^  1*?rC 


Jflv 


Henry  B.  Haven 


Nelson  A.  Davis 


Dr.  John  B.  Learned 


Judge;  Daniel  W.   Bond 


Samuel  Porter 


JJK. 


Henry  F.  Cutler  Lemuel  B.  Field  Robert  M.  Branch 

H  wiBc  man  iiB  jjtrono;   pea,  a  man  of  hnotulcbgc  incrcasctb  strmotb — Scripture 


A     GOOD     NAME 


A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great  riches.  —  Bible 


Everybody    Ukes    and    respects   self-made   men.      It   is   a   great   deal 
better  to  be  made  in  that  way  than  not  to  be  made  at  all. — Holmes 


In   the  wreck  of  noble  lives 
Something  immortal   still    survives. 

Longfellow 


Good  men  must  die,  but  Death  cannot  kill  their  names. — Metillus 


Better  than  fame  is  still  the  wish  for  fame, 
The  glorious  training  for  a  glorious  strife. 

Lytton 


Good  name,   in  man  or  woman, 

Is  the  immediate  jewel  of  their  souls. 

Shakespeare 


Lives  of  great  men  all  remind  us, 
We  can  make  our  lives  sublime. 

And,   departing,   leave  behind  us, 
Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time. 

Longfellow 


To  be  seventy  years  young  is   sometimes  far  more  cheerful  than  to 
be  forty  years  old. — Holmes 


We  live  in   deeds,   not  years,   in  thoughts,  not  breaths. 
In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 

We  should  count   time  by  heart  throbs.      He  most  lives 
Who  thinks  most,   feels  the  noblest,   acts  the  best. 
Life's  but  a  means  unto   an  end;   that  end 
Beginning,   means,   and  end   to   all  things  —  God. 

Philip  James  Bailey 


MEASURES    TAKEN    FOR    THE 
PUBLICATION     OF     THIS     BOOK 


FOLLOWING  the  Celebration  it  was  easily  seen  that  something 
should  be  done  towards  placing  the  details  of  the  affair  upon 
permanent  record,  in  book  form.     Henry  S.  Gere,  editor  of  the 

Hampshire  Gazette,  saw  this   as  strongly   as  any  one,  and,   as  will  be 

seen,   by   words  from  his  pen,   printed   elsewhere  under  the   heading, 

"Comments  of  the  Press," 
he  made  it  plain  what  was 
wanted  —  "a  complete  rec- 
ord of  everything  that 
was  said  and  done"  in 
Northampton,  on  the 
memorable  days  of  June 
5,  6,  and  7,  1904.  The 
general  public,  too,  made 
it  manifest  that  a  printed 
memorial  volume  would 
be  appreciated,  and  the 
Executive  and  Finance 
Committee,  after  settling 
the  accounts  of  the  Cele- 
bration, appointed  the  fol- 
lowing named  committee 
for  the  publication  of  a 
book:  L.  Clark  Seelye, 
Henry  S.  Gere,  Egbert  1. 
Clapp,  Chauncey  H.  Pierce 
and  Charles  F.  Warner. 

President  Seelye  felt 
obliged  to  decline  to  serve, 
on  account  of  his  college 
duties,  and  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  committee  met 
at  the    City    Hall,    Friday 

evening,  July  22,  1904.     They  organized  with  the  choice  of  Henry  S. 

Gere  as  chairman  and  Charles  F.  Warner  as   secretary.     Mr.  Warner 


Henry     S       Gere 

Sixty  Years   in    Newspaper   work  in  Nortliampton  —  Oldest  Editor 
in  New  England  —  Earliest  Promoter  of  this  Book 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


501 


was  chosen  as  compiler  and 
editor  of  the  book,  with  a  nom- 
inal compensation,  and  it  was 
voted  to  apply  to  the  City  Coun- 
cil for  formal  authority  and  an 
appropriation,  to  start  the  en- 
terprise. Here  again  Mr.  Gere's 
interest  and  experience  were 
enlisted,  in  a  vote  that  he  pre- 
sent a  statement,  in  behalf  of 
the  committee,  to  the  City 
Council,  showing  what  was  re- 
quired. Mr.  Gere,  then,  with 
some  members  of  the  Execu- 
tive and  Finance  Committee  of 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  S.  Gere — 1850 
From  an  old  daguerreotype,  taken  by  "  Jerry"  Wells 

the  Celebration,  appeared  before  the  City  Council, 
stated  the  case,  and  an  appropriation  of  $500 
was  granted  to  start  the  work  of  publication. 
Subsequently  Mr.  Gere  went  before  the  City  Coun- 
cil again,  at  the  request  of  the  Publication  Com- 
mittee, and  obtained  an  additional  appropriation 
of  $500,  which  gave  the  committee  confidence  to 
proceed  further. 

The  secretary  was  then  engaged  to  canvass 
for  subscriptions  for  the  book,  and  his  efforts, 
with  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  mail  orders 
previously  received,  in  response  to  circulars,  re- 
sulted in  a  net  total  of  about  650  advance  sub- 
scriptions, upon  the  announcement  of  which  the 
committee  felt  encouraged  to  go  forward,  and  Mr.  City  Clerk  Egbert  i.  Cl.^pp 
Gere  was  requested,  by  vote,  to  join  Mr.   Warner     -^^-^ '^^  eniisted,^in  Northamp- 


502 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


in    bringing    the    work  of   publication  to   as  early  and   satisfactory  a 
conclusion   as   possible. 

The  result  is  seen  in  the  ])resent  volume,  which  might  have  been 
bettered  had  Messrs.  Gere  and  Warner  been  able  to  impress  the  au- 
thorities, before  the  Celebration,  with  the  importance  of  action  towards 
publication  before  the  event.  A  considerable  number  of  pictures 
might  then  have  been  obtained  which  could  not  later  be  produced, 
and  in  several  ways  the  cost  of  publication  could  have  been  lessened; 
but  the  Committee  on  Publication  consider  it  fortunate  that  they 
have  been  able  to  obtain  the  material  they  did,  under  such  adverse 
conditions,  and  the  Introduction,  in  the  early  part  of  this  work, 
expresses  their  obligations  to  those  who  assisted  them. 


T IV  O      SMITH      COLLEGE      PROFESSORS 


Prof.  Henry  M.  Tyler 

Dean  of  the  College  Faculty.     Twenty-eight 
years  in  service 


Prof.  John  T.  Stoddard 

Lineal    Descendant   of   Rev.  Solomon  Stoddard, 
Second  Minister  of  Northampton 


ON  THE   MOUNTAIN  TOP 

Then  for  the  first, 
My  eye  and  spirit  that  had  drunk  the  whole 
Wide  vision,  grew  discriminate,   and  traced 
The  crystal  river  pouring  from  the  North 
Its  twinkling  tide,   and  winding  down  the  vale, 
Till,  doubling  in  a  serpent  coil,  it  paused 
Before  the  chasm  that  parts  the  frontal   spurs 
Of  Tom  and  Holyoke;  then  in  wreathing  light 
Sped  the  swart  rocks,  and  sought  the  misty  South, 
Across  the  meadows — carpets  for  the  gods, 
Woven  of  ripening  rye  and  greening  maize 
And  rosy  clover  blooms,  and  spotted  o'er 
With  the  black  shadows  of  the  feathery  elms  — 
Northampton  rose,  half  hidden  in  her  trees, 
Lifted  above  the  level  of  the  fields, 
As  noiseless  as  a  picture. 

From  " Katlirina" 
By  JosiAH  Gilbert  Holland 


Hills  draw  like  heaven, 
And  stronger  sometimes,  holding  out  the  hand 
To  pull  yon  from  the  vile  -flats  up  to  them. 

Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning 


/;;   the  mountains  did  he  feel  his  faith. 
All  things,  responsive  to  the  writing,  there 
Breathed  immortality. 

There  littleness  was  not ;  the  least  of  things 
Seem'd  infinite;  and  tliere  his  spirit  shaped 
Her  prospects;  nor  did  he  believe — 
He  saw. 

Wordsworth 


WHAT 

THE    PRESS     HAD    TO     SAY 

w   H   r 

IV    E        CELEBRATE 

Bntc=Celebration  EMtorial  In  tbe  IRortbampton  Balls  "IberalD 

WHAT  moves  great  masses  of  men  to  come  together  and 
rejoice,  at  intervals  of  time,  upon  the  completion  of  some 
great  project,  or  the  attainment  of  great  age? 

This  is  a   question   of  more  than  psychological  impor- 
tance. 

There  are  those  who  care  nothing  for  such  occasions;  there  are 
a  few  who  would  pass  thera  by  with  indifferent  eye,  and  leave  them 
unnoticed,  so  far  as  they  are  concerned,  in  the  annals  of  the  race,  but 
such  men  are  rare;  absorbed  in  sordid  speculation  and  selfish  desires, 
they  would  hold  aloof  from  any  demonstration  of  the  nobler  emiotions, 
— if,  indeed,  they  have  such  —  when  the  least  item  of  pecuniary  ex- 
pense is  to  be  incurred  thereby.  Such  men,  it  would  seem,  must  be 
of  the  class  whom  Shakespeare  so  well  described,  as  having  no  music 
in  their  souls,  and  being  fit  for  "treason,  stratagem  and  spoils." 

Such  times  of  public  rejoicing  as  mark  the  present  attainment 
of  our  Quarter-Millennial  Anniversary  as  a  corporation,  a  body  politic, 
are  undoubtedly  inspired  by  that  "touch  of  nature  which  makes  the 
whole  world  kin,"  and  men  rejoice  and  exult  on  such  occasions  because 
they  are  happy  and  proud  of  a  worthy  accomplishment — an  accom- 
plishment, perhaps,  in  which  they  may  have  had  a  little  share,  accord- 
ing to  the  degree  in  which  they  have  been  useful  in  their  day  and  gener- 
ation, to  their  kindred,  their  neighborhood,  the  town,  state,  nation 
or  the  world.  Each  one,  then,  has  a  part,  in  times  of  general  rejoicing, 
and  who  is  to  be  pitied  so  much  as  the  m.an  who,  condemned  by  the 
judgment  of  his  fellow-men,  languishes  behind  prison  walls,  or  stands 
without,  in  fear  of  them?  So  that  a  conscious  rectitude  of  life  is 
necessary  to  complete  enjoyment  of  a  great  celebration  by  humanity. 

But,  it  may  be  asked,  why  celebrate  in  so  noisy  a  fashion?  Why 
not  build  a  monument,  open  a  public  park,  and  mark  the  event  in  a 
"more  dignified  way?"  Because  men  are  but  children  of  a  larger 
growth,  and  their  exultation  of  feeling  must  have  natural  vent.  After 
the  shouting  and  parade  have  passed,  then  it  is  time,  perhaps,  to  talk 
about  a  more  material  commemoration.  Let  nature  have  its  course. 
It  was  the  dignified  John  Adams,  who  said,  as  he  surveyed  the  accom- 
plishment of  our  country's  independence:  "The  Fourth  of  July  ought 
to  be  solemnized  with  pomp  and  parade,  with  shows,  games,  sports, 
guns,  bells,  bonfiies  and  illuminations,  from  one  end  of  this  continent 
to  the  other,  fiom  this  time  forward,  forevermore,  that  the  people 
may  not  forget  this  priceless  heritage."  And  the  bells  have  rung, 
and  the  cannon  have  annually  been  fired,  more  or  less,  ever  since,  in 


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Kust  Block  on  the  right 

patriotic  communities.  What  would  John  Adams  not  say  now,  if 
he  were  hving,  and  could  survey  the  accomplishments  of  one  hundred 
or  two  hundred  and  fifty  years? 

Northampton  celebrates  because  the  charter  of  her  liberties  comes 
from  no  king  or  queen,  but  from  the  sacrifices  of  most  worthy  ancestors. 
She  surveys  the  accomplishments  of  the  town  and  city  corporation 
for  two  hundred  and  fifty  years,  and  finds  not  a  stain  upon  her  name. 
Other  towns  and  states  have  repudiated  honest  debts,  but  North- 
ampton has  always  paid  hers  in  full,  with  interest. 

A  long  line  of  illustrious  sons  and  daughters  have  been  given  to 
the  world;  governors,  councilors,  heads  of  various  departments  of  state, 
senators,  generals,  judges  of  all  courts,  diplomats,  professors,  renowned 
musicians,  doctors,  lawyers,  clergymen,  theologians  and  litterateurs. 
Northampton's  sacrifices  in  all  wars  have  given  her  as  honorable  a 
place  in  the  roll  of  fame  as  any  city  in  the  land.  Her  beneficences, 
and  the  manner  of  their  administration,  year  after  year,  have  proven 
the  integrity  and  trustworthiness  of  those  who  have  had  these  charities 
in  care  and  keeping.  So  far  as  is  known,  no  embezzlers  or  traitors 
were  born  here.  Neither  has  the  brand  of  Cain  followed  any  of  her 
natives. 

Her  sons  and  daughters  who  went  out  into  the  wide  world — many 
of  them  able  to  be  with  us  today— have  been  advantaged  by  the  good 
character  and  training  produced  by  the  best  home  influences.  If 
they  are  making  a  noble  impress  upon  the  life  of  other  communities 
it  is  largely  because  of  the  influence  of  their  early  life  here.     For  this, 


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therefore,  we  have  to  be  thankful  today — that  Northampton  has  pro- 
duced so  much  good  moral  influence  and  force  in  the  world.  The  bad 
is  very  small  in  comparison  with  it. 

Much  more  might  be  said,  if  one  were  to  detail  the  various  religious, 
charitable  and  educational  benefactions  which  make  our  city  notable, 
but  these  features  show  for  themselves  and  we  may  well  content  our- 
selves with  pointing  to  them  with  pride.  They  cannot  fail  to  attract 
the  attention  of  the  world,  and  show  why,  with  our  great  municipal 
age,  we  rejoice  and  exult  over  the  present  attainments. 

When  this  Celebration  shall  have  passed  into  history,  its  moral 
teachings  will  have  been  more  fully  realized.  The  inspired  writer 
who  declared  that  "A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great 
riches"  was  speaking  only  of  what  everybody  ought  to  know,  but  yet 
that  which  people  are  constantly  forgetting.  It  will  be  found,  after 
our  period  of  rejoicing  has  passed,  that  the  money  spent  was  profitably 
employed,  from  something  more  than  a  pecuniary  point  of  view.  The 
passionate,  wearisome  and  exhausting  chase  after  material  satisfaction 
and  aggrandizement  will  have  been  interrupted  for  a  better  satisfac- 
tion of  spirit  and  soul.  We  shall  become  imbued  with  nobler  ideals 
for  the  city  and  state.  We  shall  approach  nearer  that  time  when 
few  shall  stand  for  selfishness,  and  nearly  all  will  uphold  the  ideal  state  — 
when  the  rich  man  will  help  the  poor  man  and  the  poor  man  love  the 
great.  The  mad  race  after  wealth  and  power  may  go  on,  but  most 
of  us  will  think  of  something  better  and  strive  for  something  nobler. 


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T  o  D  A  Y 


Could  the  fathers  of  old  be  with  us,  in  body,  as  they  may  be  in 
spirit,  today,  they  must  have  the  deepest  satisfaction  in  the  develop- 
ment of  their  chosen  site  for  a  dwelling  place.  It  only  remains  for 
their  descendants  to  cherish  their  ideals,  live  as  closely  as  they  can  to 
them,  and  those  influences  which  have  made  Northampton  so  notable 
today  will  continue  to  bear  as  rich  and  even  richer  fruit  in  her  children 
and  children's  children  of  the  greater  Northampton  now  in  prospective. 

Northampton  Daily  Herald,  June  4,  1904. 


A     VIEW    ON    THE    EVE    OF    CELEBRATION 


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It  is  a  secure  past  and  a  proud  one.  Notable  have  been  the  men 
and  women  who  best  represent  old  Northampton,  and  true  and  fine  their 
culture.  Worth  and  dignity  and  grace  of  character  have  never  been 
better  exemplified  than  in  this  old  town  of  the  Connecticut  valley, 
whether  we  look  to  Eastern  Massachusetts,  to  New  Hampshire,  to 
Virginia,  or  anywhere  else  on  American  soil.  This  is  not  the  language 
of  compliment,  not  a  mere  expression  of  the  fond  partiality  of  the 
author  of  Northampton's  being,  but  the  precise  record  of  fact. 


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AS      IT 


Today 


It  is''not  easy  to  conceive  of  a  lovelier  spectacle  of  holiday  inter- 
est and  flutter,  of  serene  beauty  and  stately  composure,  amid  surround- 
ings refined  and  gracious,  than  the  one  city  in  Hampshire  county 
presents  today  as  her  festival  week  auspiciously  opens.  To  belong  to 
an  old  family  of  Northampton  is  to  be  honored,  and  people  so  allied 
will  flock  thither  in  numbers  to  tax  the  hospitality  and  accommo- 
dations of  the  place.  It  will  be  the  finest  sort  of  an  "Old  Home  Week." 
Still  will  there  be  place  and  interest  for  those  not  of  Northampton 
lineage.  If  the  old  is  to  be  most  glorified,  the  present  is  worth  con- 
sidering and  talking  about  and  enjoying.  The  representative  who 
has  come  from  Northampton  in  England  will  discover  that  in  the  North- 
ampton of  today  he  is  seeing  such  perfection  of  civilization  as  the 
United  States  has  got  to  show.  In  libraries,  in  its  college,  schools, 
social  life  and  beauty  of  environment,  he  will  be  enjoying  rural  Massa- 
chusetts quite  at  her  best.  By  topping  off  with  Boston,  New  York, 
Washington  and  the  St.  Louis  Exposition,  this  Englishman  ought  to 
be  qualified  to  write  a  book  about  us — at  least  as  well  as  others  of 
his  countrymen  have  been. 

Much  has  been  and  will  be  said  of  the  men  of  unusual  abilities 
who  contributed  to  make  Northampton,  but  they  wrought  upon  the 
sure  foundation  of  the  humbler  men,  who  were  faithful  in  smaller  but 
mighty  influential  things.  Let  not  these  be  forgotten,  nor  the  women 
and   children  making   up  the   families  and  homes,   the   village   life   so 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  509 

delightful  in  Northampton,  and  in  its  highest  social  expressions  dis- 
tinguished far  beyond  the  vicinage.  The  flavor  of  New  England's 
best  is  still  retained  in  Northampton,  as  in  Pittsfield  and  Greenfield. 
The  centering  of  county  interests,  and  particularly  of  the  courts,  in 
these  shire  towns,  has  brought  to  the  three  places  an  abiding  intel- 
lectual life  higher  and  better  than  is  manifest  in  centers  of  population 
more  purely  commercial.  It  is  not  entirely  fancy  which  ascribes  to 
them  a  keener  and  finer  differentiation  of  values,  a  broader  and  more 
unvexed  outlook,  a  more  genuine  satisfaction,  in  those  things  which 
contribute  to  the  enduring  satisfaction  of  life.  Much  of  the  best  young 
blood  of  all  three  places  finds  scope  for  success  and  usefulness  at  home. 
Thus  this  historically  important  year  of  1904  displays  for  inspection 
a  city  of  18,000  inhabitants,  comely  by  nature,  as  of  old,  but  richly 
ecjuipped  with  varied  industries,  yet  practicing  agriculture  as  afore- 
time in  its  famous  fertile  meadows.  Learning  has  her  seat  there  in 
Smith  College,  guided  still  by  her  first  and  much-beloved  president, 
and  in  other  worthy  educational  institutions.  Churches  and  philan- 
thropic agencies  have  multiplied,  and  clubs,  and  the  variety  of  social 
organizations  that  belong  to  a  modern  city,  are  Northampton's  in 
more  than  the  ordinary  measure.  How  greatly  have  the  spanning 
250   years  enlarged  the   stern  and   simple  life  of  the  pioneers! 

In  the  flood  of  work  attending  the  preparations  for  an  adequate 
and  fitting  recognition  of  the  Quarter-Millennial,  petty  differences  have 
been  forgotten,  the  machinery  of  a  big  Celebration  is  in  motion  and 
the  day  is  here.  The  city  has  during  the  week  blossomed  forth  in  a 
wealth  of  color — there  are  decorations  everywhere,  and  over  and  round 
about  is  Nature's  matchless  green,  so  rich  and  fresh  after  the  generous 
rains.  The  letters  from  absent  sons  and  daughters,  written  in  response 
to  invitations  received,  have  abounded  in  love  and  loyalty  for  the 
mother  town,  and  the  publication  of  these  in  the  local  papers  must 
have  stirred  present  residents  to  a  deeper  sense  of  the  meaning  of  the 
observance  which  local  pride  has  prompted.  The  presence  of  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  English  Northampton  is  so  fitting  that  one  wonders 
why  Springfield  did  not  think,  when  she  observed  her  250th  anniver- 
sary, to  have  the  English  Springfield  represented.  Alderman  Cam- 
pion comes  from  a  city  of  over  60,000  inhabitants,  the  capital  of  North- 
amptonshire, itself  historic  as  the  place  where  the  Earl  of  Warwick 
gained  a  great  victory  over  the  Lancastrians  in  the  meadows  on  the 
banks  of  the  Nene  back  in  1400.  Springfield  Republican. 


The  city  of  Northampton  proved  last  week  that  it  graduated  long 
ago  from  the  provincial  class  by  the  way  it  handled  its  250th  anni- 
versary. It  was  not  alone  the  excellence  of  the  three-days'  program 
which  made  the  Celebration  a  triumph,  but  the  completeness  of  ar- 
rangements which  permitted  the  events  to  take  place  without  blunders 


510  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

or  confusion.  Plans  were  laid  weeks  in  advance  for  the  city's  birthday 
anniversary  and  there  was  a  wide  provision  made  for  all  the  minute 
details  which  really  determine  the  success  or  failure  of  an  affair  of 
that  sort.  There  were  committees  and  sub-committees  and  each 
man  or  woman  on  these  committees  was  held  strictly  responsible  for 
certain  things.  All  worked  with  enthusiasm  and  heartiness  and  a 
keen  sense  of  their  responsibilities.  As  a  result  the  Celebration  was 
marked  by  some  features  which  are  sadly  lacking  on  most  occasions 
of  this  sort.  Visitors  were  cordially  received  and  directed  all  around 
the  city,  and  the  arrangements  were  such  that  guests  felt  no  embarrass- 
ment in  asking  questions. 

Buildings  were  labeled,  programs  were  plentiful,  and  there  was 
courtesy  everywhere.  The  merchants  added  dignity  to  the  occasion 
by  closing  their  stores,  showing  that  their  regard  for  their  city  was 
stronger  than  any  commercial  consideration.  So  far  as  possible  the 
events  began  on  time  and  the  exercises  were  of  just  the  proper  length. 
The  three-days'  program  was  well  balanced  and  everybody  was  wel- 
come to  attend  all  that  was  going  on.  There  was  no  exclusive  function 
to  which  only  a  select  few  were  invited,  but  the  entire  body  of  citizens 
of  Northampton  took  part  in  the  entire  Celebration  and  gave  the  free- 
dom of  the  city  to  the  hundreds  of  guests. 

The  arrangements  for  the  press  were  the  best  possible.  Realiz- 
ing that  the  newspaper  men  had  an  arduous  and  nerve-wearing  task, 
a  suitable  place  in  the  center  of  the  city  was  fitted  up  as  headquarters 
for  them,  and  there  was  placed  all  the  paraphernalia  of  a  newspaper 
ofhce.  The  cordial  and  helpful  spirit  which  the  members  of  the 
committee  showed  toward  the  reporters  was  deeply  appreciated  by 
the  press  and  aided  materially  in  the  work  of  writing  adequate  and 
accurate  reports  of  the  Celebration.  The  unfortunate  habit  of  think- 
ing of  the  press  and  then  giving  it  only  a  half  thought,  was  noticeably 
absent  in  Northampton,  and  the  little  city  is  in  a  position  to  instruct 
many  larger  cities  in  this  respect. 

The  success  of  the  affair  lay  in  the  fact  that  no  detail  was  too 
small  to  receive  careful  attention  and  that  each  citizen  did  the  work 
apportioned  for  him  to  do.  Springfield  Union. 


Northampton's  remarkably  successful  Celebration  of  its  250th 
anniversary  the  past  week  claimed  the  interest  of  the  whole  state  and 
the  particular  attention  of  this  valley,  for,  as  we  pointed  out  last  week 
it  was  an  event  of  nriuch  local  significance,  by  reason  of  the  settlement 
of  the  town  by  men  from  Springfield,  aside  from  that  common  bond 
of  neighVjorlv  interest  which  prompts  the  friendly  hand-clasp  on  occa- 
sions like  this.  The  old  town  has  dispelled  any  illusion  that  North- 
ampton "was  rather  slow,"  and  few  of  the  many  anniversary  visitors 
had  full   appreciation   of  the  magnitude   of  the  Celebration  program, 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  511 

despite  the  large  publicity  given  the  plans  in  advance.  And  when 
each  succeeding  day  unfolded  its  wealth  of  appropriate  exercises, 
following  each  other  in  orderly  sequence,  and  with  unusual  prompt- 
ness, surprise  was  generally  expressed  that  so  much  could  be  accom- 
plished. There  was  good  judgment  and  excellent  taste  in  it  all,  and 
contemplation  of  the  Celebration  can  bring  no  regrets.  It  has  been 
a  good  investment  for  Northampton,  and  the  early  critics  of  the  Cele- 
bration plan,  as  outlined,  find  but  few  supporters  now  that  it  is  over. 

Springfield  Republican. 


The  Spring-field  Republican,  in  its  Sunday  issue  of  June  12th,  in 
summing  up  the  general  character  and  effect  of  the  Celebration,  con- 
tained the  following  paragraph : 

The  cit}'-  was  particularly  fortunate  in  its  guests.  Governor  Bates 
did  not  come  to  make  an  inspection  or  a  speech,  but  to  make  a  visit. 
He  was  in  town  three  days,  and  hundreds  of  the  citizens  met  him  and 
were  charmed  with  his  frank  and  cordial  manner  and  attractive  per- 
sonality. The  Governor  and  Mrs.  Bates  were  guests  of  Councilor 
and  Mrs.  Richard  W.  Irwin  at  their  pleasant  home  on  Henshaw  avenue. 
Ex-Gov.  John  D.  Long  came  to  Northampton  Sunday.  He  was  the 
guest  of  Oscar  Edwards  and  attended  the  First  Church,  where  many 
people  met  him  after  the  service.  It  was,  indeed,  as  so  frequently 
remarked  during  the  Celebration,  a  fine  and  appropriate  thing  to  have 
a  representative  from  Old  Northampton  in  England  present,  but  there 
was  much  more  to  the  visit  of  Alderman  S.  S.  Campion  than  the  fact 
of  his  mission  alone.  There  was  the  fact  that  he  was  the  right  man 
in  the  right  place.  Alderman  Campion  proved  to  be  a  happy  and 
effective  speaker,  an  alert  and  keenly  interested  observer,  and  a  genial 
and  companionable  man.  He  was  not  only  a  guest  of  the  Celebration, 
but,  like  the  two  Governors,  became  an  important  part  of  it,  and  made 
friends  at  every  turn,  both  by  his  public  addresses  and  by  his  social 
qualities.  New  Northampton  is  indebted  to  Old  Northampton  not  only 
for  sending  a  man,  but  for  sending  the  man  they  did.  A  man  who 
could  not  make  a  speech  might  have  had  as  much  good  will  in  his  heart 
as  Mr.  Campion  did,  but  the  fact  could  not  have  been  so  promptly  and 
agreeably  made  manifest. 


The  absence  of  Governor  Bates  Monday  from  the  state  house, 
while  the  "Ancients"  were  holding  their  annual  election  and  while 
the  fight  over  the  proposed  Sunday  law  was  at  its  height,  was  due, 
of  course,  to  unusual  causes.  For  even  in  a  Commonwealth  as  ven- 
erable as  Massachusetts,  it  is  not  every  day  that  a  community  can 


512  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

hold  a  250th  anniversary.  Indeed,  the  ancient  city  itself,  from  which 
it  was  so  hard  to  coax  an  appropriation  big  enough  to  meet  the  neces- 
sary bills,  had  perhaps  a  less  imposing  notion  of  the  greatness  of  the 
ceremony  than  some  of  the  visitors  had.  A  stretch  of  250  years,  or 
nearly  eight  generations,  covers  almost  the  whole  history  of  this  part 
of  the  world,  since  the  settlement  of  whites  grew  strong  enough  to 
make  history.  It  includes  everything  except  the  very  earliest  battles 
of  the  white  settlers  to  make  a  New  England  better  than  the  Old.  The 
frightful  struggles  with  the  lurking  Indians,  the  trouble  with  the  French; 
the  rebellion  of  the  colony;  the  glorious  history  of  the  century  so  lately 
ended;  these  have  a  historical  value  that  make  the  Northampton 
jubilee  a  wonderful  thing.  Boston  Advertiser. 


All  Massachusetts  is  interested  in  Northampton,  the  same  as  it 
is  interested  in  every  other  city  and  town,  old  or  young,  within  its 
confines.  This  year  there  have  been  a  number  of  celebrations  among 
the  older  settlements,  and  in  every  instance  that  place  has  shown  that 
it  was  not  only  advanced  in  years,  but  also  advanced  in  wisdom  and 
up-to-dateness.  Northampton  is  going  to  do  the  same  thing.  To 
almost  every  man  it  will  be  recalled  as  a  place  where  education  can 
be  had  along  the  most  approved  lines.  It  can  also  be  recalled  as  a 
business  and  agricultural  community  that  can  compete  with  any  others 
in  the  Commonwealth.  It  is  a  place  of  which  the  state  is  proud,  for  it 
is  on  such  communities  that  the  state  founds  its  claim  to  leadership 
among  the  commonwealths  that  make  up  this  nation  and  that  give  it  a 
leading  place  among  the  nations  of  the  earth.         Worcester  Telegram. 


There  was  a  big  crowd  out  on  the  streets  at  Northampton  last 
night,  but  not  such  a  crowd  as  a  city  like  Holyoke  would  have  out. 
Such  music  and  such  beautiful  decorations  would  pack  the  streets  of 
Holyoke.  But  perhaps  the  people  of  Northampton  are  having  such 
a  glorious  three  days  of  it  that  they  are  not  inclined  to  go  out  in 
admiration  every  night.  It  should  be  said  that  the  money  raised 
for  the  anniversary  has  been  most  wisely  spent. 

The  street  and  building  decorations  in  Northampton,  for  the 
anniversary,  have  never  been  approached  in  Hampshire  county.  Those 
who  during  the  past  three  days  have  stood  near  the  City  Hall  and 
looked  up  towards  Smith  College,  or  down  the  hill  to  Bridge  street, 
never  will  forget  the  beauty  of  the  scene.  Without  exception  every 
building  is  handsomely  decorated,  while  at  frequent  intervals  long 
lines  of  flags  are  stretched  across  the  street.  The  trolley  poles  have 
been  decorated,  the  decorations  going  two  beyond  the  usual  ones  in 
Holyoke.  Here  a  flag  is  hung  from  the  poles.  There  is  the  flag  and 
also  a  long  line  of  bunting  which  reaches  nearly  to  the  ground,  and 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  513 


between  that  and  the  flag  a  half  rosette  of  bunting,  making  an  elaborate 
decoration,  which  knocks  out  all  the  decorations  Holyoke  has  been 
used  to  seeing. 

The  new^spaper  guests  of  Northampton  the  past  three  days  have 
been  treated  royally,  as  becomes  the  generous  men  of  that  city.  The 
committee  has  done  everything  to  make  it  pleasant  and  profitable 
for  them,  even  to  providing  credential  cards  from  the  Mayor  and 
City  Marshal,  giving  them  the  freedom  of  the  city. 

Holyoke  Transcript. 


The  culmination  of  the  Northampton  Celebration  was  all  that 
could  be  desired,  and  the  old  town  can  properly  congratulate  itself. 
Favored  in  weather,  although  the  sun  did  not  shine  at  all  hours  of  the 
day,  the  ambitious  program  was  carried  out  in  all  its  detail,  and  the 
visitors,  who  came  in  ample  numbers,  were  well  entertained.  Beau- 
tiful was  the  scene  on  Main  street  yesterday  morning,  when,  between 
the  gayly -decorated  buildings,  moved  the  great  parade,  for  the  success 
of  which  Northampton  and  its  daughter  towns  have  worked  so  hard. 
It  passed  all  too  soon  for  the  onlooker  to  fully  appreciate  its  dignity, 
ingenuity  and  completeness — the  mounted  officials,  handsome  car- 
riages, floats  and  automobiles,  the  uniformed  ranks  of  marching  men 
of  the  Grand  Army,  Spanish  war  veterans,  militia  and  fraternal  organ- 
izations— all  flnally  passing  in  review  before  the  Governor,  his  Coun- 
cil, the  city  and  county  officials,  and  the  guests  of  the  day. 

S  prill  f^ficld  Re  publican . 


With  a  gorgeous  parade,  a  banquet,  and  a  blaze  of  fireworks  North- 
ampton brought  to  a  close  a  Celebration  which  has  been  a  grand  tri- 
umph from  start  to  finish,  and  has  been  warmly  praised  by  the  many 
visitors  to  the  city.  It  was  the  earnest  desire  of  the  citizens  to  make 
the  town's  observance  of  its  250th  birthday  an  occasion  to  be  remem- 
bered, an  event  which  might  be  handed  down  with  pride  to  posterity, 
and  these  citizens  succeeded  admirably. 

If  there  is  any  city  in  the  country  which  is  planning  for  a  parade 
of  any  sort  it  would  be  wise  to  go  to  Northampton  for  points.  The 
parade  this  morning  was  a  grand  success.  It  was  beautiful,  smart, 
clever  and  original,  and  the  streets  were  packed  to  witness  it. 

Spriiiiifield  Union. 


That  much  careful  thought  went  into  Northampton's  Celebration 
is  evinced  by  its  outcome  of  beautiful  decorations,  brilliant  iPumina- 
tions,  its  interesting  and  artistic  parade,  its  museum  of  historical  an- 
tiquities, its  tuneful  music,  its  burst  of  brightness  at  the  close  in  the 
fireworks  and  the  reception  at  the  City  Hall,  which  in  different  ways 


514  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

were  equally  brilliant,  and  in  the  eloquent  and  gifted  speakers  who 
graced  the  occasion  with  their  presence.  Northampton's  interests 
have  rested  from  the  first  on  chuieh  and  school,  and  it  was  peculiarly 
fitting  that  this  Celebration  should  begin  with  the  church  services  on 
Sunday,  and  that  the  address  of  welcome  shoulJ.  be  pronounced  bv 
the  head  of  one  of  the  country's  greatest  edtnational  institutions. 
Northampton  has  done  well.  She  has  worthily  celebrated  a  worthy 
beginning  and  pointed  her  way  toward  a  force :a^  life,  always  on  the 
side  of  right,  in  the  future.  Easthampton  Neivs. 


Northampton,  the  home  of  so  much  that  is  good  and  true,  and 
beautiful  in  nature,  art,  ethics  and  glorious  achievement,  is  o|)en  to 
the  hearty  congratulations  of  her  sister  municipalities,  upon  the  mag- 
nificent (big  word,  but  none  too  big  to  express  it)  success  of  the 
Celebration  of  her  250th  anniversary,  which  culminated  in  a  flood  of 
pyrotechnics  Tuesday  night.  The  oratory,  the  decorations,  the  street 
pageant,  and  last,  but  not  least,  the  open  arms  of  motherlv  interest 
with  which  she  encircled  her  sons  and  daughters,  and  bade  them  wel- 
come, thrice  welcome,  to  the  ancestral  and  revered  hearthstones,  were 
all  illustrations  of  the  maternal  and  fraternal  spirit  of  the  occasion. 
Long  live  old  Northampton!  May  her  enviable  record,  rich  with  the 
treasures  of  an  eventful  past,  be  but  the  earnest  of  what  is  to  come, 
as  cycle  follows  cycle  into  the  great  unknown.  A  more  tempting  and 
edifying  intellectual  and  musical  feast  was  never  spread  before  the 
"River  Gods"  and  their  numerous  descendants  than  was  provided  for 
this  memorable  occasion.  To  partake  of  this  soul-inspiring  feast  was 
the  privilege  of  a  lifetime.  Westficld  A^ezC'S  Lcticr. 


Northampton  is  being  generally  congratulated  on  the  magnificent 
success  of  its  250th  Anniversary  Celebration.  The  Governor  brings 
back  word  that  he  was  amazed  by  its  beauty.  It  was  a  triumph  so- 
cially, artistically  and  intellectually.  Boston  Herald. 


It  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that  the  influence  of  Northampton, 
both  religiously  and  educationally,  has  extended  not  only  through  the 
United  States,  but  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth. 

Manchester  (N.  H.)  Union. 


The  city  of  Northampton  has  celebrated  the  250th  anniversary 
of  its  first  settlement.  The  Celebration  was  in  all  its  features  worthy 
of  the  city  of  today,  worthy  of  its  best  traditions,  worthy  of  the  im- 
portance of  the  occasion.  It  has  established  a  new  date  in  city  history, 
and  furnished  food  for  remembrances  which  will  remain  with  those 
who  participated  in  it  while  life   lasts.     It  took  them  a  long  time  to 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  515 


get  together,  but  when  it  was  once  settled  that  there  was  to  be  a  Cele- 
bration all  classes  joined  hands  and  started  in  to  make  it  one  of  which 
the  city  might  be  proud.  The  city  was  fortunate  in  having  as  chair- 
men of  the  various  committees  men  who  were  ready  to  work  themselves 
and  who  possessed  the  faculty  of  getting  others  to  work  with  them. 
An  immense  amount  of  work  was  accomplished,  with  results  which 
miist  be  highly  gratifying  to  all  concerned.  Amherst  Record. 


If  there  was  anything  lacking  in  Northampton's  Celebration  of 
her  important  birthday,  it  was  not  apparent  to  the  outsider.  It  was 
only  the  promoters  who  could  discover  the  vacant  places,  the  might- 
have-beens,  and  it  is  ciuite  likely  that  they  forget  them  now,  in  review 
of  the  brilhant  success  of  the  affair.  If  less  money  was  expended  than 
might  have  been,  it  is  certain  that  what  was  used  was  well  applied. 
The  spectacular  possibilities  were  not  neglected,  but  there  is  particu- 
lar cause  for  congratulation  that  the  substantials  were  given  first 
thought,  the  speeches,  the  music  and  the  social  home  greeting. 

Greenfield  Recorder. 


A  little  act  of  courtesy  during  the  Northampton  parade  was  much 
appreciated  by  the  many  Holyokers  who  witnessed  it.  Lieutenant 
Sullivan,  at  the  head  of  a  squad  of  Holyoke  police,  drew  up  in  front 
of  the  court-house,  for  duty.  The  Northampton  chief  came  along 
in  his  automobile.  He  got  out  and  gave  up  his  place  to  Lieutenant 
Sullivan,  he  going  on  foot.  It  was  that  way  all  through  the  Celebra- 
tion. The  Northampton  people  first  looked  after  the  comfort  of  the 
visitors.  Holyoke  Transcript. 


Northampton's  Main  street,  for  three  nights,  was  a  dream  of 
beauty.  What  possibilities  of  decoration  the  incandescent  light  has 
0])ened  up  !  How  lame  the  older  forms  of  night  decoration  are  was 
well  shown  at  Northampton,  and  it  w411  indeed  be  years  before  the 
beauty  of  the  city  on  these  festive  nights  is  outshone  in  this  part  of 
the  country,  and  as  good  taste  never  outlaws,  it  will  never  be  recalled 
except  as  a  triumph.  Greenfield  Recorder. 


Quite  a  large  number  from  this  town  attended  the  Northampton 
Celebration,  nearly  fifty  going  over  on  Tuesday.  They  were  much 
pleased  with  the  excellent  decorations,  etc.,  and  were  given  a  royal 
welcome  in  the  Meadow  City.  The  parade  was  particularly  fine. 
Northampton  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the  success  of  its  250th  ob- 
servance, and  Ware,  the  next  largest  place  in  the  county,  extends  its 
greeting  and  best  wishes  for  its  future.  Ware  River  News. 


516  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

The  good  old  country  town — the  city  of  Northampton — seems 
to  have  carried  out  one  of  its  most  successful  of  old-home  week  Celebra- 
tions. One  good  feature  of  the  Celebration  was  that  it  was  not 
dragged  out  to  a  weary  length.  On  Sunday,  the  first  day,  the  religious 
exercises  were  attended  to,  and  the  more  secular  matters  were  amply 
carried  out  on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  completing  the  program  just  before 
the  people  began  to  weary  of  their  activities.  The  affair  seems  to  have 
been  carried  out  in  a  business  way,  and  it  brought  enjoyment  and 
profit  to  many  people.  IHttsficld  Eagle. 


The  city  of  Northampton  has  given  pleasure  to  a  great  many 
Franklin  county  people  by  its  generous  entertainment  of  this  week, 
and  there  has  been  a  large  turnout  of  our  people  to  do  honor  to  a  sister 
town.  The  guests  have  been  entertained  by  good  music,  by  a  parade 
with  many  beautiful  features,  by  brilliant  decorations,  and  by  thought- 
ful and  stimulating  oratory  that  has  adequately  called  attention  to 
the  real  significance  of  the  day. 

Northampton  will  never  be  sorry  for  the  time  and  money  it  has 
spent  to  observe  this  anniversary.  The  impression  has  existed,  to 
some  extent,  that  this  beautiful  old  city,  like  many  other  New  Eng- 
land communities,  where  habits  and  traditions  have  been  fixed  for 
generations,  lacked  a  certain  spirit  of  enterprise.  As  it  takes  push 
and  energy  to  get  up  such  an  olDservance,  the  fact  that  it  is  held  goes 
far  to  dispel  such  an  impression.  As  it  is  through  the  constant  expan- 
sion of  activity  and  growth  in  self-expression,  that  the  individual  finds 
himself  and  comes  to  a  realization  of  his  own  powers,  so  it  is  through 
some  public-spirited  effort  like  this  that  a  town  comes  to  realize  its 
strength  and  the  possibilities  that  lie  within  its  grasp.  The  more  such 
enterprises  are  carried  through  to  a  successful  conclusion  the  easier  it 
is  to  carry  on  public-spirited  activity.  Men  and  women  become  used 
to  good  team  work,  acquire  confidence  in  themselves  and  each  other 
and  in  their  collective  ability  to  do  things  worth  while.  So  the  people 
of  Greenfield  have  found  it,  in  their  coaching  parades,  their  Board 
of  Trade  and  other  public-spirited  activities.  Greenfield  Gazette. 


The  festival  music  during  the  Celebration  was  in  loftv  tone.  When 
Ralph  Baldwin  graduated  from  the  press  to  n:iusic,  the  newspaper 
world  lost  a  good  representative  and  the  world  of  art  gained  a  good 
director.  The  vigor  of  his  management  is  not  limited  evidently  to  the 
handling  of  the  baton,  however,  but  extends  into  organization,  and 
his  chorus  of  fifty  men  was  such  an  one  as  might  well  give  him  pride. 

Greenfield  Reeorder. 


Northampton  is  known  as  the  Meadow  City,  but  there  isn't  any 
grass  growing  in  her  streets  this  week.  Holyoke  Transcript. 


AFTER      THE      CELEBRATION 

BDltorlal  from  Ibampsbire  (3a3Cttc 

Too  much  cannot  be  said  in  praise  of  our  great  Celebration.  It 
has  been  a  splendid  success  from  the  beginning.  Our  people  entered 
into  the  work  of  preparation  for  it  with  due  appreciation  of  the  essen- 
tial thing  to  be  celebrated,  and  with  a  determination  to  make  it  a  not- 
able success.  To  their  great  credit,  be  it  said,  they  have  done  their 
part  in  a  very  commendable  manner,  and  they  may  well  be  congratu- 
lated upon  the  success  of  their  efforts. 

The  decorations  of  the  public  and  private  buildings  have  far  ex- 
ceeded the  most  sanguine  expectations;  they  were  very  handsome, 
many  of  them  elegant,  and  the  memory  of  them  will  be  a  joy  forever. 

The  Sunday  services  in  the  various  churches  were  very  appro- 
priate and  added  greatly  to  the  general  interest  in  the  Celebration. 
It  was  most  fortunate  that  this  feature  was  made  a  part  of  the  program. 

The  leading  features  of  the  Celebration  were  the  address  of  wel- 
come by  President  Seelye  and  the  oration  by  Governor  Long.  These 
were  especially  fine  efforts  —  apt,  felicitous,  dignified,  eloquent,  and 
every  way  fitting  to  the  occasion.  The  committee  could  not  have 
made  better  selections  for  the  performance  of  these  important  parts. 

The  parade  has  been  the  much-heralded  feature  of  the  Celebra- 
tion and  the  one  in  which  the  popular  interest  has  been  most  centered. 
The  address  of  welcome  and  the  oration  appealed  to  the  intellect, 
the  parade  appealed  to  the  eye.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the 
parade  met  every  expectation  and  passed  off  to  the  entire  satisfaction 
of  the  onlookers. 

The  bancpet  was  also  a  fine  success.  The  speeches  were  of  a 
high  order,  full  of  good  sentiment  and  appreciation. 

The  illumination  of  the  city  was  a  most  fitting  part  of  the  Cele- 
bration. It  supplemented  the  decorations  most  agreeably  and  gave 
a  finish  and  tone  to  them  which  were  necessary  to  completeness.  Never 
before  was  there  so  beautiful  a  sight  in  this  city. 

The  historical  collections  were  unexpectedly  elaborate  and  inter- 
esting, and  added  much  to  the  pleasure  of  the  Celebration. 

It  was  a  pleasure  to  see  once  more  so  many  of  the  sons  and  daugh- 
ters of  the  town  from  near  and  far,  and  to  witness  their  affection  for 
and  loyalty  to  their  former  residence. 

A  unique  and  pleasant  feature  of  the  Celebration  was  the  presence 
here  of  an  official  representative  of  Northampton,  in  Old  England. 
Most  happy  was  the  thought  that  suggested  the  invitation  to  the 
inother  city,  and  most  fitting  was  the  response.  Alderman  Campion 
pioved  to  be  just  the  right  man  to  represent  his  city.  He  was  a  pleas- 
ant gentleman  to  meet,  genial  and  courteous  in  his  intercourse  with  our 
people,  a  quick  and  keen  observer  of  passing  events,  abounding  in  good 
sense,  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments,  and  an  exceptionally  able  and 
eloquent  public  speaker.  His  visit  heie  will  forever  be  a  bright  spot  in 
the  history  and  memory  of  our  Celebration. 


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518  QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 

It  is  cause  for  congratulation  that  the  plans  for  the  Celebration 
were  so  well  prepared  at  the  start.  The  men  selected  for  the  various 
committees  have  proved  to  be  very  efihcient;  they  entered  upon  their 
work  with  zeal  and  have  carried  it  forward  with  prudence,  energy 
and  completeness. 

The  city  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  success  which  has  at- 
tended its  efforts  to  celebrate  this  anniversary.  The  money  it  has 
expended  in  this  Celebration  will  prove  to  be  a  good  investment.  The 
town  has  been  well  advertised.  People  who  never  knew  of  the  town 
have  been  made  acquainted  with  its  history.  Its  institutions  have 
been  made  known  to  the  people  of  a  large  area.  Our  own  people 
have  come  to  learn  more  of  the  beautiful  history  of  the  town  and  will 
henceforth  have  a  better  appreciation  of  the  rich  heritage  that  is  theirs. 
The  children  of  this  city  have  received  impressions  that  will  remain 
with  them  to  the  end  of  their  lives.  Yes,  this  Celebration  will  forever 
be  a  most  valuable  asset  of  the  town.  To  make  it  complete,  the  record 
should  be  carefully  prepared  and  published.  Everything  connected 
with  it  should  be  printed  in  a  book — the  organization  of  the  commit- 
tees, abstracts  of  the  sermons,  the  address  of  welcome,  the  oration, 
the  speeches  at  the  bancjuet,  descriptions  of  the  decorations  and  illum- 
inations, everything  that  was  said  and  done.  No  time  should  be  lost 
in  preparing  for  this  publication.  The  Celebration  will  not  be  com- 
plete without  it. 


Reviewing  our  three-days'  Celebration  again,  we  see  nothing  to 
regret,  but  much  to  commend,  in  the  way  it  was  planned  and  executed. 
It  was  not  too  long,  nor  yet  was  it  too  short.  The  exercises  were  all 
appropriate,  and  nothing  could  have  been  omitted  without  marring 
the  general  plan.  There  was  not  a  hitch  from  beginning  to  end,  every- 
thing seeming  to  work  with  the  regularity  and  smoothness  of  a  clock 
in  perfect  running  order.  There  is  entire  satisfaction,  on  .the  part  of 
our  citizens,  on  the  part  of  the  former  residents  who  were  here  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  Celebration,  and  on  the  part  of  the  general  outside  public. 
All  are  pleased  and  satisfied,  and  all  are  full  of  praise  of  the  splendid 
manner  in  which  everything  passed  off. 

Behind  the  committees  who  labored  so  well  was  the  loyal  public 
sentiment  of  the  town.  It  did  not  fail.  Strong  in  its  purpose  and 
instant  in  action,  it  came  nobly  to  the  support  of  the  managers.  No- 
where was  there  a  discordant  note,  nowhere  an  obstruction. 

Then  the  conduct  of  the  vast  crowd  of  people  was  most  admirable. 
Here  were  fifty  thousand  people  congregated  and  the  police  had  little 
to  do  but  to  extend  courtesies  and  aid  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  freedom 
of  the  city.  There  was  no  disorder  or  drunkenness.  The  people 
behaved  as  they  would  be  expected  to  do  at  a  Sunday-school   picnic. 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS  519 


This  Celebration  has  been  an  agreeable  success  in  that  it  has  shown 
the  loyalty  of  that  portion  of  our  people  whom  we  sometimes  call 
the  "new-comers."  It  stands  to  the  credit  of  this  class  of  our  popu- 
lation that  they  have  not  been  behind  the  "old  set"  in  helping  on 
the  Celebration.  The  part  they  took  in  the  parade  was  such  as  to 
place  them  well  in  the  front  in  displaying  devotion  to  the  historic 
past,  and  in  all  the  departments  they  acquitted  themselves  in  a  most 
commendable  manner.  Race  distinctions  count  for  nothing  when  it 
comes  to  paying  honors  to  the  men  and  women  who  laid  the  founda- 
tions of  the  great  inheritance  which  all  now  enjoy  with  equal  freedom. 

Another  feature  of  the  Celebration  was  the  liberality  of  opinion 
so  freely  expressed  in  the  speeches  and  addresses.  No  one  approved 
of  the  hard  and  illiberal  doctrines  which  Jonathan  Edwards  preached, 
and  w^hich  were  taught  here  for  two  hundred  years,  but  all  paid  high 
tribute  to  the  sincere  devotion  and  unaffected  piety  of  the  people  of 
those  times.  The  world  has  moved  forward  in  thought,  in  that  it 
views  with  more  generosity  the  questions  which  troubled  our  early 
generations.  There  is  no  less  religion  now  than  formerly,  but  more 
toleration  of  differences  of  opinion.  All  sects  and  denominations 
now  M^ork  in  harmony  for  the  promotion  of  the  common  welfare,  both 
here  and  hereafter. 

Northampton  will  hereafter  be  prouder  than  ever  of  its  history. 
That  history  is  unsurpassed  by  that  of  any  other  municipality.  Beau- 
tiful it  is,  satisfying  to  contemplate  as  a  matter  of  the  past,  and  an 
inspiration  for  the  future.  It  will  stand  the  test  of  the  closest  exam- 
ination,  and  wherever  held  up  its  lustre  will  never  grow  dim. 

In  this  time  of  "looking  backward"  we  must  not  overlook  the 
great  services  which  were  rendered  to  this  town  by  the  two  men  wdio 
have  been  its  historians,  Sylvester  Judd  and  James  R.  Trumbull. 
To  these  men  the  town  owes  a  debt  it  can  never  repay.  Each  gave 
a  full  c[uarter  of  a  century  of  labor  to  the  accumulation  of  historical 
matter,  without  which  this  Celebration  would  have  been  a  hard  and 
difficult  task.  Mr.  Judd  accumulated  valuable  material  and  Mr. 
Trumbull  put  it  in  convenient  form  for  use.  The  forefathers  sowed; 
these  men  reaped.  Long  and  patiently  they  labored,  w4th  no  hope 
or  expectation  of  reward,  save  in  the  consciousness  of  performing  a 
great  public  work  that  needed  to  be  done.  To  their  memory  and  to 
their  honor  we  record  this  testimonv  to  the  great  service  they  per- 
formed with  so  much  care  and  efficiency  and  with  such  unselfish  de- 
votion. Great  would  have  been  their  pleasure  could  they  have  lived 
to  see  and  to  take  a  part  in  this  great  historical  Celebration. 

Daily  Hampshirr  Gazette,  June  9,  1904. 


FINANCIAL>        EXHIBIT 

RECEIPTS  AND   EXPENDITURES   FOR    THE 
QU  ART  ER-MI LLENN  I  A  E     CELEBRATION 


IReceiptB 

City  appropriation       ....... 

Cash  receipts,  viz.: 

Mrs.  Martha  Strong  Harris  ..... 

Northampton  Street  Railway  Co.  ... 

Northampton  and  Amherst  Street  Railway  Co.       . 

Greenfield,  Deerfield  and   Northampton   Street   Railway  Co. 

Plumbers'  Union,  City 

Alfred  Starkweather,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Northampton  Baseball  Association 

Banquet  Tickets  sold 

Hampshire  County 

Historical  Pamphlets  sold 

C.  H.  Bowker  &  Co. 

Sundry  Receipts  received  and  paid  in  by  Mayor  Hallett 


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25.00 

10 .  00 

25.00 

■30 

78.70 

481 . 00 

30.00 

107-43 
25  .00 

303-43 


)785.86 


JEipenMtures 

Invitations          ........             $200.00 

Reception  and  Entertainment 

533 

96 

Monday  Morning  Exercises 

170 

90 

Children's  Parade 

132 

52 

Games  and  Sports 

787 

45 

Parade  and  Floats 

1439 

63 

Banquet    . 

709 

39 

Decorations 

1018 

2,2, 

Illuminations 

1 191 

84 

Music 

656 

96 

Salute  and  Ringing  Bells 

16 

50 

Historical  Localities 

215 

71 

Historical  Collections 

181 

15 

Transportation 

370 

42 

Printing  Programs,  Tickets,  etc. 

702 

44 

Anniversary  Tent 

748 

25 

Press  Entertainment 

73 

62 

Daughters  American  Revolution 

40 

00 

Contingencies,  Executive  and  Financial  Committee 

454 

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$9644.00 

Unexpended  l)alance 


IT41  .80 


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THE   YEARS   TO   COME 


T 


How  many  ages  hence 

Shall    this  our  lofty   scene   be   acted   over, 

In  states   vmborn   and   accents   yet   unknown  ? 

Julius  C.bsar,  Act  III,  Scene  i 


Tomorrow,   and    tomorrow,   and    tomorrow, 
Creeps   in   this   petty   pace,   from   day   to   day, 
To   the   last   syllable   of   recorded   time. 

Shakespeare,  "Macbeth" 


When   Time,   who    steais   our   \ears    away, 
Shall   steal   our   pleasures   too, 

The   mem'ry   of   the   past   will   stay, 
And   half   our  joys   renew. 

Thomas  Moore 


O !     a  wonderful   stream   is    the   river   Time, 

As   it   runs   through   the    realm   of   tears, 
With   a   faultless   rhythm   and   a   musical   rhyme, 
And   a  broader  sweep   and   a   surge   sublime. 
As   it   blends   in   the   ocean   of   j^ears ! 

Bayard  Taylor 


Build   thee   more   stately   mansions,    O   my   soul, 
As    the    swift    seasons    roll! 
Leave   thy   low- vaulted   past  ! 

Holmes 


One    God,    one    law,    one   element. 
And   one   far-off   divine   event. 
To   which   the   whole   creation   moves. 

Tennyson 


When    the   last   reader   reads   no  more. 

Holmes 


Till   the   sun   grows   coid 
And  the   stars   are   old. 
And   the   leaves   of  the   judgment    book   unfold. 

Bayard    Taylor:    Bedouin   Song 


The  Lesson  ot  Two  Hundred   and   Fifty  Years 


Zict  us  bear  the  tontUision  of  the  tiibole  matter:     Jfcar  v!3ot),  anb 
htc]f  \^\s  commanbmentB ;  for  this  is  the  ttibole  buti?  of  man. 

Old  Testament 


INDEX 


T      O 


TEXT 


Introduction    ..... 
The  First  Celebr.a.t!ON 

Two  Hundred  .\nd  Fiftieth  A.\nivers.\ry   (The  Beginning) 
The  Petition  .... 

Action  Taken  in  City  Council  and  in  Mass  Meeting 
Preliminary  Committee  of  Arrangements 
First  Meeting  in  City  Hall      . 
Organiz.\tion  of  Provisional  Committee 
•Report  to  Gener.\l  Committee 
'Complete  Working  Organization 
The  Invited  Guests  .... 

Invitation  to  Old  North.\mpton,  England 
Action  Taken  by  Towns  of  Easthampton,  Southampton  a.xd 

hampto.\  ..... 

Preparations — Work  of  the  Various  Committees 
Proclamation  by  the  Mayor 
Chief  Marshal's  Orders 
The  Decorations       ..... 
The  Illuminations  .... 

Sermons  and  Services  in  the  Churches 
Service  of  Song        ..... 
Ringing  of  Bells  and  Firi.ng  of  Salutes 
Exercises  in  Academy  of  Music 

President  Seelye's  Address 

Ex-Governor  Long's  Address 
Afternoon  Exercises  in  the  Pavilion 

Principal  Howard's  Address 

Remarks  of  Mr.  Campion 
The  Ball  Game  .... 

Open  Air  Band  Concerts 
Poems  Contributed 

Concert  by  Northampton  Vocal  Club 
Reception  ..... 

The  Parade       ..... 
Collation  and  Post-Prandial  Exercises  in  the  Pavilion 

Introductory  Remarks  by  Judge  William  G.  Bassett 

Address  of  Welcome  by  Mayor  Henry  C.  Hallett 

Address  by  Governor  John  L.  Bates 

Address  by  Admiral  Francis  A.  Cook 

Address  by  Hon.  Samuel  S.  Campion- 
Address  by  Principal  Joseph  H.  Sawyer 

Address  by  Rev.  Henry  T.  Rose,  D.D. 

Address  by  Hon.  Frederick  H.  Gillett 

Address  by  President  L.  Clark  Seely'e,  LL.D. 

Address  by  Col.  Joseph  B.  Parsons 
Letters  of  Regret    ...... 

Colonial  Reception  ..... 

Fireworks  ....... 


West- 


19s. 


XII 

I 

5 

7 

14 

14 

2 1 

23 

25 
29 

39 
38 

48 

53 
76 

77 
81 

93 
105 
146 

151 
152 
154 
161 
179 
180 
189 
193 

338 
1 96 

198 
203 
205 
296 
298 
299 

301 
304 
305 
3^3 
316 

319 
322 

325 
327 
329 
339 


524 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Historical  Localities       ...... 

Historical  Collections  ..... 

ixcidential  events  ..... 

Award  of  Prizes  to  Floats 

Address  of  Prof.  Hazen    ...... 

Meeting  of  High  School  Alumni        .... 

Miller  Family  Reunion     ...... 

Public  Comfort  House       ...... 

Felicitation  upon  Freedom  from  Disorder,  Etc. 
List  of  Visitors  to  the  Celebration 
Measures  Taken  for  the  Publication  of  This  Book 
What  the  Press  Had  to  Say  .... 

Financial  Exhibit  ...... 


347 
382 
414 

417 
42 1 

421 
429 
432 
450 
500 

504 
^20 


PAGES  or  SENTIMENT 

Extract  from  John  Boyle  O'Reilly's  Poem 

Extract  from  John  G.  Whittier's  Centennial  Hymn 

Extract  from  Holland's  "Kathrina" 

Home  and  Native  Land 

The  Roll  of  Fame 

The  City's  Motto      .... 

The  Breaking  Waves  Dashed  High 

Northampton  the  Beautiful 

Northampton  as  Pictured  by  one  of  her  Sons 

The  Past  and  Future 

A  Portal  to  all  Arts 

Childhood  Days         .... 

Old  Times  ..... 

Our  Fathers  and  Our  Birthplace 

School  Days  Recalled 

Mounts  Holyoke  and  Tom 

Our  Country  .... 

Men,  High-Minded  Men 

The  Country  Parson 

The  Country  Doctor 

The  Bench  and  Bar 

The  Old  Familiar  Faces 

When  I  Remember  All 

To  Live  in  Hearts  We  Leave  Behind 

A  Good  Name  .... 

On  the  Mountain  Top 

The  Years  to  Come 

The  Lesson  of  Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Years 


VI 

VIII 

XVI 

4 

37 

104 

105 

150 

204 

296 

328 

346 

381 

416 

420 

434 

449 

473 

478 

480 

482 

48S 

492 

494 

499 

503 

521 

522 

INDEX     TO     ILLUSTRATIONS 


P  O  R  TRAIT  S 

Noted  Men  and  Benefactors  of  the  Town  and  City 

(Whose  Portraits  appear  preceding  the  Sentiment-Page,  "  Roll  of  Fame." 


Allen,  Rev.  William,  D.D 
Bates,  Hon.  Isaac  C. 
Bliss,  George 
Clarke,  John 
Earle,  Dr.  Pliny 
Edwards,  Rev.  Jonathan 
Forbes,  Charles  E. 
Hill,  Samuel  L. 
Holland,  Josiah  Gilbert 
JuDD,  Sylvester 
Lilly,  Alfred  T. 
Lyman,  Edward  H.  R. 
Mills,  Hon.  Elijah  Hunt 
Strong,  Governor  Caleb,  LL.D 
Trumbull,  James  R. 
WiLLiSTON,  John  P. 


I 

36 

30 
2 

18 

XIV 
I  2 
10 
XV 

20 

12 
26 

34 

IV 

22 


Municipal  Officers  and  Celebration  Committees 


Board  of  Aldermen,  1Q04 
Chairmen  of  Sub-Committees 
Common  Council,  1904 
Executive  and  Finance  Committee 
Mayors  of  Northampton 
Town  Committee,  Easthampton 
Town  Committee,  Southampton 
Town  Committee,  Westhampton 


41 

56  and  57 
42  and  43 
52 
44 
49 
50 
51 


Local  Clergy 


Barrett,  Rev.  S.  Allen 
Breaker,  Rev.  John  C. 
Buckingham,  Rev.  Herbert  G. 
Butler,  Rev.  Willis  H. 
Cobb,  Rev.  Elisha  G. 
Free,  Rev.  Alfred 
Gallen,  Rev.  Patrick  H. 
Holmes,  Rev.  Clement  E. 
Kenny,  Rev.  John 
Kent,  Rev.  Frederick  H. 
LucEY,  Rev.  Thomas  P. 
Powell,  Rev.  Lyman  P. 
Rainville,  Rev.  Noel 
Reding,  Rev.  Peter  C. 
Rose,  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  T. 


136 

120 
140 
126 
136 

138 
141 
128 

130 
122 

144 
118 

143 
145 
107 


526 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Speakers  at  Post-Prandial  Exercises 

Bassett,  Judge  William  G. 
Bates,  Governor  John  L. 
Campion,  Hon.  Samuel  S. 
Cook,  Admiral  Francis  A. 
GiLLETT,  Hon.  Frederick  H. 
Hallett,  Mayor  Henry  C. 
Parsons,  Col.  Joseph  B. 
Rose,  Rev.  Henry  T.,  D.D. 
Sawyer,  Principal  Joseph  H. 
Seelye,  President  L.  Clark,  LL.D. 


299 
302 
306 
304 

319 
299 

325 
316 

313 
322 


Some  Participants  in  the  Colonial  Ball 

BiGELOw,  Miss  Jane  A. 
Cook,  Miss  Helen  G. 
Cook,  Miss  Isabel  A. 
Copeland,  Dr.  Elmer  H. 
Smith,  Miss  Jeanie  D. 


333 
330 
332 
332 
331 


Individual  Portraits  of  Citizens  and  Others 


Baldwin,  Ralph  L.  ... 

Campion,  Hon.  Samuel  S. 

Carroll,  Matthew      .... 

Clapp,  Egbert  I.,  When  He  Enlisted 

Clark,  Sheriff  Jairus  E.,  on  Horseback 

Gere,  Henry  S.,  as  Oldest  Editor 

Howard,  Principal  Edwin  C. 

Irwin,  Capt.  Richard  W.,  on  Horseback 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Drusilla  Hall 

Long,  Hon.  John  D. 

Miller,  Elbert  H.  T. 

Packard,  Austin 

Seelye,  President  L.  Clark,  LL.D. 

Stoddard,  Prof.  John  T. 

Tyler,  Prof.  Henry  M. 

Wellman,  L.  Lee 

Williams,  Col.  Henry  L.,  on  Horseback 


199 
189 
225 

501 
205 

500 

179 

207 

223 

161 

421 

223 

154 
502 
502 
179 
209 


INDIVIDUALS  IN  GROUPS 


A  Distinguished  Northampton  Family 

JosiAH  D.  Whitney 
JosiAH  D.  Whitney,  Jr. 
James  L.  Whitney 


William  Dwight  Whitney 
Henry  M.  Whitney 


474 


"They  were  Honored  in  Their  Generation,"  etc. 

Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates  and  Mrs.  Martha  Henshaw  Bates 
Judge  Samuel  Henshaw  and  Mrs.  Martha  Hunt  Henshaw 
Benjamin  Tappan  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Homes  Tappan 


475 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


527 


*'A  Man  Dies,  but  his  Name  Remains" 

TnUJTHY     DWIGHT 

Mrs.  Mary  Woolsey  Dwight 
Major  Josiah  Dwight 

Old  Court-House  Group 

Jonathan  Hunt  Butler 
Giles  C.  Kellogg 
Major  Harvey  Kirkland 
Judge  Joseph  Ly'man 

A  Group  of  Old  Pastors 

Rev.  Michael  E.  Barry 
Rev.  Zachary  Eddy,  D.D. 
Rev.  Gordon  Hall,  D.D. 


Samuel  Hinckley 
Capt.  Samuel  Parsons 


Samuel  F.  Lyman 
Dr.  Daniel  Stebbins 
Solomon  Stoddard 
Samuel  Wells 


Rev.  John  Todd,  D.D. 
Rev.  Payson  Williston 


476 


477 


479 


Northampton  Doctors  of  the  Past 

Dr.  Benjamin  Barrett 
Dr.  Edward  E.  Denniston 
Dr.  James  Dunlap 
Dr.  Sylvester  Graham 
Dr.  Ebenezer  Hunt 


4S1 


Dr.  David  Hunt 
Dr.  Charles  L.  Knowlton 
Dr.  Gustavus  D.  Peck 
Dr.  Daniel  Thompson 


Some  of  Northampton's  Noteworthy  Contributions  to  the  Bar 

and  Bench         .........         483 


Judge  William  Allen 
'Osmyn  Baker 
Haynes  H.  Chilson 
Charles  Delano 


Judge  Charles  A.  Dewey 
Judge  Samuel  Howe 
Judge  Joseph  Ly^man 
Judge  Samuel  T.  Spaulding 


Some  of  the  Respected  Older  Men  of  the  Past 


484 


Capt.  Jonathan  Brewster 

Samuel  W.  Lee 

Josiah  Parsons 

Col.  Thomas  Pomeroy 


Paul  Strong 
David  B.  Whitcomb 
Dea.  Eliphalet  Williams 


Representative  Men  of  Their  Times 

Henry'  Bright 
William  Clark 
Lewis  J.  Dudley 
Erastus  Hopkins 


4S5 


Gen.  Luke  Lyman 
Henry  Shepherd 
Oliver  Warner 


Some  Representative  Northampton 
the  "Great  Majority" 

Atkins,  James  D.  .  493 

Arnold,  William  F.  .  486 

Bodman,  Luther  .  .  489 

Bond,  Henry'  H.  .  .  490 

Bottum,  Samuel  A.      .  .  493 

Burleigh,  Charles  C.  .  493 

Butler,  Jonathan  Hunt  .  486 

Carr,  Smith  .  .  .  491 


Business  Men  who  have   joined 


Childs,  Henry 
Clark,  Capt.  Edwin  C. 
Cook,  Gen.  Benjamin  E. 
Copeland,  Edward  P. 
Crafts,  David  W. 
Crafts,  Josephus 
Dikeman,  Henry' 
French,  Marvin  M. 


490 
4S9 
489 
487 
489 
489 
490 
486 


528 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


Fuller,  Stephen  B. 
Gaylord,  William  M. 
Hebert,  Joseph 
Herrick,  Webster 

HiLLYER,    WiNTHROP 

Hunt,  Seth 
KiNGSLEY,  Charles  B. 
Kingsley,  Dea.  Daniel 
KiNGSLEY,  Prof.  George 
Lincoln,  Dea.  Addison  J. 
Longley,  Major  Henry  A. 
Maltby,  Lafayette 
Meekins,  Dr.  Thomas  W. 
Otis,  Gen.  John  L. 
Parsons,  Capt.  Enos 
Parsons,  Horace  K. 
Pratt,  William  F. 


493  Ray,  George  H. 

487  Ross,  Austin 

491  Rust,  Theodore 

486  Shepard,  Col.  George 

487  Smith,  Charles 
486  Smith,  Silas  M. 

490  Stoddard,  Dea.  William  H 

486  Strong,  Sidney 

491  Spaulding,  Capt.  Mark  H. 

489  Thayer,  Col.  Justin 

487  Thompson,  Dr.  Austin  W. 
487  Warner,  Oliver 

490  Warner,  Joseph 
493  Warner,  John  F. 
489  Williams,  Michael 
493  Whitcomb,  Waldo  H. 
487  Wright,  Ansel 


493 

493 

487 

489 
490 
486 
489 
487 
491 
486 
487 
490 
491 

493 
491 

491 

490 


Oldest  Business  Men  of  Northampton  Now  Living 


Bond,  Judge  Daniel  W. 
Branch,  Robert  M. 
Bridgman,  Sidney  E. 
Clarke,  Christopher 
Clark,  Merritt 
Cook,  Benjamin  E. 
Davenport,  Dr.  Joseph  N. 
Davis,  Nelson  A. 
Demond,  J.  Howe 
Dickinson,  Charles  H. 
DiMOCK,  Lucius 
Draper,  John  L. 
Edwards,  Oscar 
Field,  Lemuel  B. 
Gere,  Henry  S. 
Gilfillan,  Dr.  Thomas 
Grogan,  Matthew 


498  Haven,  Henry  B. 

498  Jones,  Dr.  William  H. 

495  'Kinney,  Charles  M. 

495  Learned,  Dr.  John  B. 

495  Marsh,  Joseph 

497  McCallum,  Alexander 

497  Parsons,  Isaac  S. 

498  PoMEROY,  William  C. 

497  Porter,  Samuel 
495  Pratt,  Charles  S. 

495  Roberts,  Dr.  Osmore  O. 

496  Searle,  James  H. 
495  Smith,  Watson  L. 

498  Strickland,  Judge  William 

495  Todd,  William  H. 

496  Williams,  Joseph  C. 

497  WiLLisTON,  A.  Lyman 


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496 

497 
498 
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496 

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497 
498 

497 
497 
495 
496 
496 
496 

497 
496 


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Decorated  Buildings 

The  Court  of  Honor 

Corner  of  Main  and  Masonic  Streets 

Forbes  Library 

Main  Street,  from  City  Hall 

City  Hall  .... 

First  Church  and  Court-House 

Savings  Bank  and  Court-House 

The  Old  Bank 

Smith  College 

Smith  Charities 

Main  Street,  near  Old  South 

Hotel  Hampton  .... 

South  Side  of  Main  Street,  corner  Pleasant 

Odd  Fellows  Hall 


So 
82 

83 
84 

85 
86 

88 

89 

90 

91 
92 

93 
94 
95 


NORTHAMPTON,    MASSACHUSETTS 


529 


First  National  Bank  and  Commercial  College 
Court  of  Honor  at  Night  .... 

Lilly  Library,  Florence  .... 

Parsons  Block,  Florence  .... 


96 

07 

99 


THE  PARADE 

Governor  Bates,  Staff  and  Ladies 

Marshals  of  the  Parade  .... 

Marshals  and  Aids  ..... 

The  Sheriffs  Appear,  Heading  the  Procession 

Waiting  for  the  Procession  to  Appear 

Invited  Guests  in  Carriages 

The  Southampton  Settlers'  Team  Comes  in  View 

Governor  Bates  and  Mrs.  Bates  in  Carriage 

Next  the  Nonotuck  Company's  Gorgeous  Float 

A  Rosebud  Garden  of  Girls 

Some  More  of  Them  .... 

Easthampton's  Contribution  Comes  in  Sight 

Old  Stage-Coach  from  Southampton 

Hints  of  the  Horseless  Age 

More  of  the  Horseless 

The  Decorated  Carriages 

The  Fire  Department        .... 

Looking  Down  the  Street,  near  City  Hall 

The  Front  of  Masonic  Temple 

After  the  Procession  had  Passed 


10 1 
206 
208 

2  JO 

212 
214 
220 
221 
222 
224 
226 
228 
229 
230 
231 
232 
2  ^6 
238 

239 
240 


Decorated  Automobiles 

Bemext,  Frederick  W. 
Crooks,  Edgar  F. 
Davis,  Eugene  E. 
Jager,  Frederick  G. 


234 
234 
237 
234 


King,  Warren  M. 
Risley,  Warren  T. 
Wood,  Edward  E.,  Jr. 


233 
233 
234 


Decorated  Carriages 

Bailey,  Grace 
Clark,  Jairus  E. 
Clark,  "Dr.  Sidney  A. 
Demond,  J.  Howe 
Field,  Horace  W.      .   . 
FiTTs,  Charles  N. 


218 
216 
219 
218 
2 1 7 
216 


Harlow,  Mrs.  Charles  N. 
Haven,  Henry  B. 
Kinney,  Charles  W. 
McCallum,  Alexander 
Williams,  Henry  L. 


21S 
218 
21  7 
216 
216 


FLOATS 

The  First  School-House 

The  Old  "One-Hoss  Shay" 

The  Colonial  Court  Float 

Easthampton  Town  Float 

Hampton  Company,  Easthampton 

Southampton  Settlers'  Team 

Southampton  Independent  R.  R.  Co. 

Dairying  Float  from  Westhampton 

One  of  the  Historical  Floats  (The  Perils  of  Our  Forefathers) 

Another  Historical  Float  (The  Minute  Men) 

Another  View  of  the  Westhampton  Float 


244 

246 
246 
248 

250 

252 
254 

256 

242 

243 

258 

530 


QUARTER-MILLENNIAL  CELEBRATION 


The  Manufacturing  Floats 

NoNoTUCK  Silk  Co.,  Florence 
NoNOTUCK  Silk  Co.,  Haydenville 
NoNOTUCK  Silk  Co.,  Leeds 
Belding  Bro's  Silk  Mill 
Florence  Manufacturing  Co.     . 
McCallum's  Hosiery  Mill 
Hampton  Mills,  Easthampton 


260 
260 
262 
264 
265 
266 
250 


Society  Floats  and  Displays 

St.  Jean  Baptiste  Society 

Objects  on  St.  Jean  Baptiste  Float 

St.  Jean  Baptiste  Society 

St.  Joseph's  Society  Float  No.   i 

St.  Joseph's  Society  Float  No.  2 

Same  Old  Crowd 

Patriarchs  Militant 

NoNOTUCK  Lodge,  Odd  Fellows 

St.  Joseph's  Society 

Sacred  Heart  Cadets  Float 

Court  Duvernay,  Foresters 

Float  of  the  United  German  Societies 

Crescent  Lodge,  Degree  of  Honor 

Capawonke  Tribe,  I.  O.  R.  M. 

Knights  of  Columbus 

Enterprise  Lodge,  Degree  of  Honor 

Florence  Commandery,  U.  O.  G.  S. 

St.  Anne's  Society 

Court  Meadow  City,  Foresters 

Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen 

Some  Florence  Girls  Come  to  Town 

James  F.  Shannon's  Float 


268 
270 
271 
272 
272 
25S 
25Q 
259 
273 
276 
276 
277 
27S 
278 
280 
282 
282 
283 
284 
284 
287 
291 


Historical  Localities 

Old  Church,  Court-House,  Whitney  Building,  Park,  1S64 

Northampton  Center,  as  it  was  in  1838 

View  of  Round  Hill  and  the  Stoddard  House 

The  Jonathan  Edwards  Meeting-House 

East  Corner  Main  and  King  Streets,  1855 

Residence  of  Judge  Joseph  Lyman 

Warner  House 

Old  Mansion  House 

Edwin  Kingsley  House  and  Blacksmith  Shop 

Residence  of  Henry  R.  Hinckley 

The  Jonathan  Edwards  Elm 

Edwards  Church  and  Hunt  House 

The  Great  Elm  Tree 

The  Lewis  Parsons  House 

Old  Clarke  Block 

Old  Wright  House 

The  Chauncey  E.  Parsons  House 

Portrait  of  Isaac  Gere 

Portrait  of  Jemima  (Kingsley)  Gere 

Old  Town  Hall         .... 

Residence  of  Prof.  George  Kingsley 


350 
352 
354 
356 

357 
360 

361 

364 

369 

359 
362 
366 

367 
3  73 
376 
370 
371 
378 
37S 
375 
379 


NORTHAMPTON,  MASSACHUSETTS 


531 


Historical  Collections 

Cane  and  Ixuia.x  War  Club  of  Capt.  John  King 

Old  Portrait  of  Lafayette 

Lafayette  in  Northampton,  in  1825 

Mrs.  Isaac  C.  Bates  in  Old  Age 

Hiram  Ferry 

?»Irs.  Levi  Shepherd 

Thomas  Shepherd 

Old  Pomeroy  House 

Round  PIill  in  1810 

George  Bancroft 

Joseph  G.  Cogsavell 

Chair  of  Caleb  Strong 

Jenny  Lind  and  Her  Husband 

Old  Gothic  Seminary 

Madam  Rhoda  Edwards  Dwight 

Exhibition  Rooms  in  Home  Culture  Clubs'  House 


390,  394,  4.00, 


382 

3«7 
388 

393 
398 

400 
400 
401 
402 
403 
403 
405 
407 
407 
400 
408 


Miscellaneous 

Lnvitation  to  Northampton,  England 

Back  of  Advertising  Envelope 

Sketch  of  Competitive  Design 

Official  Program 

Northampton  Baseball  Club 

Northampton  Vocal  Club 

Southampton  Household  Relics 

Old  Church,  Northampton,  England 

Old  Church,  Northampton,  England  (Interior 

The  Minuet — Opening  Movements,  Etc. 

First  Railway  Train  at  Northampton 

Henry  S.  Gere  and  Mrs.  Gere  in  1S50 

North  Side  of  Main  Street 

South  Side  of  Main  Street 


Chancel) 


38 

61 

64 

65 

192 

200 

253 

307 

307 

334-5 

412 

SOI 

505-6 

507-8 

P?-ess  of 

The   F.  a.   Bassette   Company 

Springfield,  Mass. 


SEP  7  6 


